Once Tenali was expecting a visit of his old friend. He gave two ripe mangoes to his servant. He asked him to slice them and serve the fruit when the man came. The servant gave in to temptation and ate all the slices.
Suddenly, he saw the man, his master was expecting, coming towards the house. He thought fast. He grabbed a rusty knife. Rushing to his master he told him he couldn’t cut the mangoes as the knife was blunt. Leaving him to the task the servant ran out to meet the man who was coming. “Don’t come to our house. My master has gone mad. He’s planning to cut both your ears,” he said. The man saw that his host did indeed have a knife in his hands and was sharpening it. He turned around and started walking away as fast as he could. The servant rushed back to his master and told him that the man he had invited was running away with the mangoes.
