Nasreddin was chopping a branch with an ax, sitting on its end. A passerby told him:
- You're crazy! If you chop off this branch, you yourself will fall to the ground.
Nasreddin replied:
- Go away! What do you know? — and continued chopping.
When the branch was cut, Nasreddin fell to the ground with it. Then he jumped up and ran after the passerby, saying:
- It turns out that this man is a fortune teller, I need to ask him how long I will live.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru