Tamurlane's Elephant (cont.)`Please ask Tamurlane to take the monster back.'
A committee is formed of about fifteen prominent citizens of Akshehir. Hoja joins them, they set out, but since these people are terrified of Tamurlane, they vanish one by one. Each one has an excuse: `I've got to pass water,' `I've forgotten my tobacco-box at home,' etc. Assuming that the committee is right behind him, Hoja briskly walks
into Tamurlane's tent and begins to make his plea:
Hoja goes back to town. People gather around him asking him
anxiously: `Please tell us, Hoja---what happened?'
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Nasreddin Hoja was dreaming that someone had counted nine gold pieces
into his hand, but Hoja insisted that he would not accept less than ten
pieces. While he was arguing The Interrupted Dream 
with the man over one gold piece, he was
awakened by a sudden noise in the street. Seeing that his hand was
empty, Nasreddin Hoja quickly closed his eyes, extended his hand as if
he was ready to receive, and said, "Very well, friend, have it your way.
Give me nine."
Hoja's Wife and SoupNasreddin Hoja's wife wanted to play a trick on her husband. So when he came home one night tired and hungry, she put a bowl of scalding hot soup on the table. But forgetting the soup was hot, she swallowed a spoonful of it; immediately tears rolled from her eyes.(cont.) | |
`The people of our town are so happy with the male elephant...They
are happy beyond words, but there is a slight problem: The animal is
lonesome and unhappy. We would like your Majesty to consider giving the
people of the town a female elephant as a companion for him.'
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