One man came to the judge and said that his wallet was missing from his house.
The judge gathered all his household members and gave them each a stick of the same size. At the same time he said:
“By tomorrow morning the thief’s wand will have grown two inches.”
The thief got scared and at night cut his stick by two inches.
So the cunning judge found the thief.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru