入门级014-Nasreddin_story_08

8 Nasreddin and the museum guide

One day Nasreddin was in a museum with sometourists. The museum guide showed them a pot and said, 'This pot is fivethousand years old.'

'Excuse me,' said Nasreddin politely, 'but I thinkit's five thousand and four years old.'

The tourists were surprised but the guide was alittle angry. He took them to another room and showed them some gold coins.

'These coins are three thousand years old,' hetold them.

'Three thousand and four years old,' saidNasreddin.

Now the guide was very angry. 'How can you knowthe exact date?' he asked.

Nasreddin smiled and replied, 'It's very easy. Yousaid the coins were three thousand years old when I was here four years ago!'