Please help me figure out the answer to this: There once lived four men in Burma who loved to tell tall tales and impossible stories. One day a well-dressed stranger came to their village. They wanted his fine clothes and thought of a plan to get them. After visiting with him for a while, one of the men said, Since we've all been travelers, why don't we each tell about our most wonderful adventure? But if anyone thinks a story isn't true, he must become the servant of the teller and do whatever he's ordered to do." The traveler agreed, and the four men smiled. They were certain he wouldn't believe their impossible tales and thus be forced to become their servant. The first man told how before he was born, he had climbed a tree too tall for his father to climb to pick some plums for his mother. The men waited for the traveler to say, Impossible," but he only smiled in admiration. The second man told how he'd gotten stuck in the top of a tree when he was only one week old and, when no one would help him, had gone to the village and gotten a ladder so he could climb down from the tree. Again the four men waited for the traveler to say, "impossible," but he only nodded and smiled. The traveler even believed the third man's story about catching a tiger and breaking it in two when he was only one year old, and the fourth man's tale of swimming for three days to the bottom of the sea, where he caught a mountain-size fish with his bare hands. The four men were disappointed that the traveler believed them. Now they could not make him their servant and order him to give them the clothes. One the other hand, all they had to do was say the believed his story no matter how impossible it turned out to be, and they, too, would be safe. "Your turn," they told the traveler. "Tell us your best adventure." He did, and when he had finished, the four men had to give up their clothes despite the fact that they said the believed him. How did this happen? Please answer with a reasonable answer! Thanks.
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He told them he was going to take their clothes from them. If they said "Impossible", then he would get to take the clothes. But they believed him, and therefore they had to give him the clothes, so he wouldn't be a liar.
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It specifically said that if anyone "THINKS" a story isn't true, not "say" it. The four travelers "thought" it wasn't true and "said" they believed him.
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