An evil count kidnapped the kings daughter but would not give her back after weeks and weeks of searching they found the count. he was taken to the king.
"if you do not tell me where my daughter is, you will be beheaded." but the count would not talk, the sentence was about to be carried out, and the king asked one last time about his daughter, the count would not talk. the executioner lifts up the axe to swing it down, as the axe comes down toward the count he says "wait I will talk!" but he was too late.
The moral of the story? Don't hatchet your counts before they chicken