While little Florence was preparing to leave for school, her mischievous puppy ate her homework. There was nothing she could do about it. Later, in class... ‘Where’s your homework Florence?’ the teacher asked. Florence knew her teacher would not believe the truth. ‘I had other things to do,’ she said.

The great library was burning. With a look of agony of his face, the librarian stared at the endless bookcase, seeing books on Religion, Philosophy, Mathematics, History, Geography, Art, Literature, Chemistry... He could not carry out more than three or four. ‘Which books should I save?’ he asked himself.

During his nightly wanderings through the city, a young gypsy boy found a lost purse, heavy with silver coins. The following day he returned it intact to the woman who had lost it. She offered him silvers, but he refused. ‘Do you want something else?’ she asked. ‘A kiss.’