A peasant was driving into a town. An old woman standing on the road asked him to take her up and drive her into the town with him. She sat next to him and as they drove along, he asked her who she was. The woman with a twinkle in her eyes told him that she was the CHOLERA. The peasant then ordered her out of his cart, but she assured him that in the town she would kill only ten persons.
Next moment she handed him a dagger and told him that if she killed more than ten, he was at liberty to kill her. The peasant later found in the town more than a hundred perished with the cholera. The angry peasant meeting the woman on the street, drew his dagger and was about to kill her.
The old woman calmly lifted her hand and told him, "I killed only ten, but fear killed the rest."
