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Fable no. 2

Once upon a time there was a father and three sons. 

The eldest said to the father "Father, please give me your blessing for I want to go in search of fortune."

The father answered "I will miss you a lot, but you have to do what you will have to do."   So he blessed him and the son set off.

On his way he met a very beautiful lady.  She said "Where are you going my good man?".  "I am going in search of fortune."  "Look no further, for you have found her.  You can have all the money your heart desires, you can have all the women you want.  You can have all the gold and castles you wish for...  the only thing you have to remember is that, from now onwards you can only say these words and nothing else, to anybody you meet, or who asks anything.

"Which words?"  The lady answered "Open your nose."  If you say anything else you will die.

"Perfect" said the young man.  The lady said "Your fortune starts now...  Remember, or you will die."

So the man became rich, and very, very happy.  That was an easy task.

In the meantime, the second son also decided to set off in search of fortune.

So as the first one, he asked his father for his blessing and set off in search of fortune.

On his way he met the beautiful lady his brother met before.

"Where are you going my good man?"  "I am going in search of fortune."  "Look no further, for you have found her.  You can have all the gold, money, women, castles... if you say only these words,

"It was the day before yesterday."  You can only say these words, if you say more you will die.

"Very well" said the young man.  So he became rich and very very happy.

In the meantime the third son decided to go in search of fortune.  As the first two brothers, he asked for his father`s blessing and off he went.

On the way he met the beautiful lady the first two brothers met earlier.  

"Where are you going my good man?"  "I am going in search of fortune."  "Look no further..."  and as she said to his brothers... she gave him the magical words to say "It was all the three of us..."

So even the third brother became rich and very very happy.

Unfortunately to them, one day all the three of them witnessed a crime.  

The police was enquiring and questioning every one in order to catch the killer.  Some people pointed up to the three brothers "They saw everything.  They saw everything.  They know who it was."

So the police approached the eldest brother "My good man have you seen who committed this crime? Did you see who shot this man?"  He answered  "Open your nose."   The police said "What?  Do you understand what we are asking.  Who killed that man?"  He repeated "Open your nose." 

The police gathered that he was stupid so they walked on towards the second brother.

 "My good man have you seen who killed that man?"  The second brother answered "It was the day before yesterday."  The Police man said "Yes.  We know that, we want to know the man who killed him.  Can you describe him?"  The second brother repeated "It was the day before yesterday."  Once again the Police gathered that the man had to be stupid so they walked towards the third brother.

"My good man have you seen who committed this crime?"  "It was all the three of us."  "O" said the Police, "We found OUR KILLERS."