End of Story
Cervantes told this “interactive” story in Don Quixote –
While waiting for dawn, Sancho entertains his master Don Quixote with a love story between a shephred and a shephredess.
One day, the shephred sees the lovely shephredess on the other side of the river, and asks a fisherman to ferry him and his 300 goats to her. The fisherman, having only a small boat, can only carry one person and one goat each time — Sancho then reminds Don Quixote to keep count of the goats, or else the story will end — and so the fisherman carries a goat, returns, carries another, returns to carry another, and so on…
“How many goats have already passed?” Sancho asks, after a while.
“How the devil should I know?” answers Don Quixote.
And thus the love story abruptly ends.