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"How did you know it was there?" he asked the young man.
"I just knew", he replied.
The king was very angry with his ministers that they were so foolish.
And the ministers decided to teach the young man a lesson. They invited him to the palace and gave him a test. They showed him two horses - one young and one old and the man had to guess which one was old, not looking into the mouth.
The young man walked home and was .very sad. When he came home he told his dad about the test. "Don't worry", the old man said.
"It's not a difficult test. Let the horses be free, the young one will run away, but the older one will walk along slowly."
The next day, the young man went to the palace. A servant brought out two horses from the stables. The horses looked identical, but one horse tried to escape, and the second horse followed the first. The young man looked at them and pointed to the young and to the old horse. He was right.
The ministers were very angry and decided to give him another test. They showed him two logs and asked him to tell, which one was from the top and which one from the bottom.
The young man went home and told his father about the difficult test.
"Don't worry", his dad said. "Put these logs into the water and you'll
