One night a hotel caught fire, and the people who were staying in it ran out in their night clothes.
Two men stood outside and looked at the fire.
Before I came out, said one, I ran into some of the rooms and found a lot of money. People don't think of money when they're afraid. When anyone leaves paper money in a fire, the fire burns it. So I took all the bills that I could find. No one will be poorer because I took them.
You don't know my work, said the other.
What is your work?
I'm a policeman.
Oh! cried the first man. He thought quickly and said, and do you know my work? No, said the policeman.
I'm a writer. I'm always telling stories about things that never happened.
一天晚上，一家旅館失火，住在這家旅館裏的.人穿着睡衣就跑了出來。
兩個人站在外面，看着大火。
在我出來之前，其中一個說，我跑進一些房間，找到了一大筆錢。人在恐懼中是不會想到錢的。如果有人把紙幣留在火裏，火就會把它燒成灰燼，所以我把我所能找到的鈔票都拿走了，沒有人會因爲我拿走它們而變得更窮。
你不知道我是幹什麼的，另一個說。
你是幹什麼的?
我是警察。
噢!第一個人喊了一聲，他靈機一動，說：那你知道我是幹什麼的?不知道。警察說。
我是個作家，我總是愛編一些從未發生過的故事。