During his night shift, Easton the miner swallowed an emerald. He left the mines with it in his stomach. At home, he ate with appetite, and drank much. When his bowels began to rumble, he went to the privy. That day, cries of excruciating pain were heard in the village.

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.