Mulla Nasreddin, in order to get rid of the children running after him, said:
— They hand out halva at the cemetery.
And the children, believing him, ran to the cemetery. When he saw that everyone was running to the cemetery, he thought: “If they didn’t give anything there, they wouldn’t go,” and, they say, he himself ran after the children.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru