The school inspector drops in on an eighth‑grade German class. After greeting the teacher, he turns to a boy in the front row.
“Well then, Tobias — what do you know about Kleist’s Broken Jug?”
Tobias sits up straight and answers earnestly:
“It wasn’t me, sir. I never touched it.”
The inspector stares at the teacher, appalled.
“Did you hear that? What do you say to that?”
The teacher sighs.
“Well… Tobias can be a bit of a rascal. But he never lies. If he says he didn’t break it, then he didn’t break it.”
The inspector, now alarmed, marches straight to the headmaster. The headmaster turns pale.
“Inspector, please — I don’t want this to reflect badly on the school. What would a jug like that cost? If I give you twenty euros, could you pass it on to Kleist and settle the matter?”
The inspector, horrified, rushes back to the Ministry and reports everything to the deputy minister. The deputy minister shakes his head.
“Well, if you ask me… it must have been the headmaster. Nobody pays Kleist that quickly unless they’re guilty.”
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