Two Wise Men and a Fool

Once upon a time there were two wise men and a fool. All three were motoring along a road which traversed a mountainous island. The road was a dangerous one; rough, narrow, hilly, and winding, it was bordered on the one side by the sheer rock wall of a mountain cliff, and on the other by emptiness ending in the sea far below. The one wise man was wending his way carefully along the road, sounding the horn of his car at every blind curve, when he noticed that another car had approached quickly...