A milkmaid was carrying the pot of milk on her head to sell it. The milkmaid was thinking that she would fetch a lot of money by selling milk. She would purchase eggs from that money, from them a lot of chickens would come out. The chickens will turn into hens after growing up. She […]
Mulla Nasruddin loved to have pets around his house. So, he had bought a lamb and a cock. The lamb pranced around his house and the cock would fly to the fence to crow. The cock was very healthy and impressive. The people often admired the cock.One day, the cock was crowing perched on the
It was a warehouse where the mice lived. One day, a black cat wandered into it. ‘What a good place for me to live in and feed on mice! I will pretend to be dead’, said the cat to himself and lay down on the ground. The younger mice surrounded him and began to shout,
Chapter 9 Days and days went by now, and no Satan. It was dull without him. But the astrologer, who had returned from his excursion to the moon, went about the village, braving public opinion, and getting a stone in the middle of his back now and then when some witch-hater got a safe chance
Sheikhchilli’s uncle had a friend who worked for the Nawab of that area. Some enumeration work was going on in the state. The Nawab wanted to know how many villages his state had and how many households each village was populated with. The administration was getting the work done by people hired on contract basis.Through
An ant and a mosquito were neighbours. There was a great deal of difference between them in shapes and their natures.The ant was very hard-working while the mosquito was very lazy. The ant was never seen sitting idle or staying at one place. The mosquito was always found flitting here and there and singing tunes
Once, a Maulvi of a famous mosque paid a visit to the village of Sheikhchilli. He was on a mission to spread the message of Islam.He spoke to the villagers and impressed upon them the importance of five prayers a day for a true devotee of Islam.To induce people he claimed, “Anyone who religiously offers
Chapter 7 It was wonderful, the mastery Satan had over time and distance. For him they did not exist. He called them human inventions, and said they were artificialities. We often went to the most distant parts of the globe with him, and stayed weeks and months, and yet were gone only a fraction of
Chapter 6 Sleep would not come. It was not because I was proud of my travels and excited about having been around the big world to China, and feeling contemptuous of Bartel Sperling, “the traveller,” as he called himself, and looked down upon us others because he had been to Vienna once and was the
Chapter 5 Marget announced a party, and invited forty people; the date for it was seven days away. This was a fine opportunity. Marget’s house stood by itself, and it could be easily watched. All the week it was watched night and day. Marget’s household went out and in as usual, but they carried nothing
Chapter 4 In a moment we were in a French village. We walked through a great factory of some sort, where men and women and little children were toiling in heat and dirt and a fog of dust; and they were clothed in rags, and drooped at their work, for they were worn and half
Chapter 3 It made immense talk next day, when Father Peter paid Solomon Isaacs in gold and left the rest of the money with him at interest. Also, there was a pleasant change; many people called at the house to congratulate him, and a number of cool old friends became kind and friendly again; and,
Chapter 2 The Stranger had seen everything, he had been everywhere, he knew everything, and he forgot nothing. What another must study, he learned at a glance; there were no difficulties for him. And he made things live before you when he told about them. He saw the world made; he saw Adam created; he
Chapter 1 It was in 1590-winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in
Chapter 5 one, two, three, four, five. There were five of them.Five couriers, sitting on a bench outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard in Switzerland, looking at the remote heights, stained by the setting sun as if a mighty quantity of red wine had been broached upon the mountain top,