Then a war started between the farmer’s nation and its neighbors. The government needed all the country’s young men to fight in the war. Men from the government came to town. They took all the healthy young men, but they didn’t send the farmer’s boy to war. His leg was broken. Many of the young men from the town died in the war. After several months, the boy’s leg got better. All the farmer’s neighbors said, “What good news! Your son didn’t go to the war, and now he is healthy!” The farmer said, “Good news? Bad news? Who knows?”