Stories of Mullah Nasruddin

One day Nasruddin, while passing by a place, had a few apricots in his
sleeve. He saw some people who were sitting under a tree. Calling them
he asked a question, "if any one of you found out what I have in my
sleeve,I will give the biggest apricot to him." One of them said," If
any one answers this question, he's letting himself in
forprophecy."One winter night while Nasruddin was sleeping he heard a
noise that was suddenly made in the street. Having covered himself
with his blanket, he came out to know thecause of the noise. Suddenly
a smart thief robbed him of his blanket and ran away. He came back
home without the blanket. In reply to his wife who was asking about
the reason for the noise, Nasruddin said, "All the quarrel was about
my blanket."
Nasruddin had a little money. He wanted to hide it some where. At
first he dug a hole, kept the money there and covered it with soil.
Aftera while he thought the money was not safe there because it would
be discovered soon. He dug another hole and kept the money there.
Herepeated this action many times. But he was not sure of its
security. He removed it out of the last hiding-place. He put the money
into a bag and rode on a donkey taking the bag to a hill top near his
house. He fixed a stick vertically in the ground and from it suspended
the bag. Iooking at it from a distance Nasruddin commented, "Human
being is not a bird to come here and steal the bag," He came back
home. Incidentally a man who was watching Nasruddin from a distance
took the moneyfrom the bag and poureddung of camel into it. After a
few days when Nasruddin was in need of cash, he went to find the bag.
When he brought the bag down from the stick, he found dung of a camel
in it. He got surprised and said, "It is very interesting. How could a
camel reachto a place where a person can't?"