It was one
rainy day in the evening. Nasreddin and his family were sitting in the living
room, talking to each other about this and that.
“What’s this?”
nasreddin’s wife got surprised.
“oh no! it’s
water. The roof’s leaking, “nasreddin added.
“you’ve got to
fix it tomorrow morning, “his wife said.
“ok, I will,
“nasreddin answered.
The nex morning
he borrowed a ladder from his neighbor.
Actually, he
was afraid of height. He climbed the ladder very carefully with great difficulty.
“Why am I doing
this? Why didn’t I ask someone to do it?” he said to himself.
Just after he
was about to start working, he heard someone knock at the door. Ther wasn’t
anybody at home at that time. His wife was going to the market. So he looked
down from the adge of the roof and saw a stranger in front of the door.
“knock, knock,
knock…….
“I am up here,
“nasreddin shouted.
The man looked
up the roof, trying to find where nasreddin is.
“What do you
want?” nasreddin asked. Nasreddin did not recognize the man, he was not his
relative nor his neighbor.
“pleae, come
down. I have something important to talk to you,” the man replied.
Trembling,
nasreddin climbed down the ladder very carefully. He thought before that
climbing down was easy, but it wasn’t. it took him quite long to climb down the
ladder luckily the man waited patiently.
Once he got to
the ground, he asked the man once again.
“What do you
want?”
The man kept
quiet for some scond then said, “some money, please.”
“what??”
nasreddin replied.
“could you
share some money with me?” the man repeated. Nasreddin was speechless. He
thought for a moment.
“Ok. But you
have to come up there with me, “he said. Again, nasreddin climbed up the
ladder. He climbed first, and the beggar was behind him. Both of them were
running out of breath and tired. Once they got to the roof top, nasreddin
turned to the man and said, “I don’t have any money.”
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