The Middle-Aged Man and His Two Mistresses

A middle-aged man had two mistresses, one young and one old. The one who was getting on in years, ashamed to be involved with a lover younger than herself, never failed, each time he came to her, to pull out his black hairs. The young one, for her part, shrinking from the idea of having an old man for a lover, removed his white hairs. And so it happened that, plucked by turns by the one and the other, he became bald.