Leonard the barber cut his customer’s hair with energetic clips, imagining he was mutilating the knave who last night had run away with his daughter. Thinking of his misfortune, Leonard closed his eyes and sighed. His customer cried in pain. Leonard opened his eyes. His customer’s left ear was missing.

After 50 years of imprisonment, Delmar had his first visitor, a young woman. She told him they had discovered the truth, and he was innocent, as he had always claimed. ‘You’re free, Delmar.’ ‘It’s too late now. I want to die here, in my home...’ Delmar returned to his cell.

The adventurer asked the desert king for the hand of his dusky daughter, and gave him a chest. The king opened it, and was dazzled by the greatest diamond he had ever seen. As the newlyweds rode away, the king opened the chest once more. It was filled with water.