Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/14
Chapter XIV.—Asking the Road. (問路.)
THERE was a near-sighted man who lost his way. He saw a stone post on the side of the road with a black crow perched on the top of it. When he saw these he thought it was a man standing there. Thrice he asked his way of this (supposed) man. Suddenly the crow flew away. The nearsighted man became angry. He then said to the stone post: "I questioned you for half a day and you have not answered me. Your hat has just been blown away by the wind, and I will not inform you of that."