The Secret of Invincibility
One Hundred Springs Once, an old aksakal was asked how many years he had lived on earth. - I have lived in this world for a long time, - replied the dignified aksakal, - almost a thousand years. - But that's impossible, you haven't even turned a hundred yet? - the young men, who had never heard a lie from the elder, were astonished. - Yes, but I count life not by years, but by the springs whose mouths I have cleared for water. Water is the source of life for all living things, for