In the year of our Lord 1432, there arose a grievous quarrel among the brethren over the number of teeth in the mouth of a horse. After 13 days of furious disputation and searching of ancient chronicles, a youthful friar asked permission to add a word. To the wonderment of the disputants whose deep wisdom was sore vexed, he beseeched them to look into the open mouth of a horse and find the answer. At this the elders were deeply offended, flew upon him and smote him hip and thigh and cast him out forthwith. For, said they, "Surely Satan hath tempted this bold neophyte to declare unholy and unheard of ways of finding truth contrary to all of the teachings of the fathers." Finally, after more days of argument, they concluded by declaring the problem to be an everlasting mystery because of a grievous dearth of historical and theological evidence thereof, and so ordered the same writ down.