A Witty Answer

A certain king was angry with one of his lords, and put him in prison;

wishing to keep him there, he said he would only set him free if he

could bring to the court a horse which was neither grey, nor black,

brown nor bay, white nor roan, dun, chestnut, nor piebald--and, in

short, the king enumerated every possible colour that a horse could

be. The imprisoned lord promised to get such a horse if the king would

set him free at once. As soon as he was at liberty, the lord asked

the king to send a groom for the horse, but begged that the groom

might come neither on Monday nor Tuesday, Wednesday nor Thursday,

Friday, Saturday, nor Sunday, but on any other day of the week that

suited His Majesty.