Once, a man was very proud of his long beard. One night, the man was reading a book by candlelight. Suddenly, he came across a sentence that read: A man with a long beard is a fool. The man decided to get rid of his long beard. So, he held the tip of his beard to the candle’s flame. It instantly caught fire and began to burn. The man cried out. Before he realized what was happening, his beard and moustache were burnt to ashes. Hearing his cries, the neighbours came running. They splashed the buckets of water on the man’s face and put out the fire. “How did it happen?” they asked. The man took a deep breath and said, “I read in a book that a man with a long beard is a fool. And indeed I have proved it!”
The Long Beard
