The Qazi’s Justice

Once a just Qazi lived in Baghdad. One day a strange case was put before him. Three brothers came to him and said,
”out father is dead. Before his death, he said that, half of his property would be given to the eldest brother. The second brother must receive one fourth of his property and the youngest must be given one sixth of it. We have divided al1 the ­property this way. But we have eleven camels. How can we divide them?"

The Qazi went to the three brother's house and said, "Do you mind if I add my camel to your herd?"

"No, we don't," they replied.

Now, there were twelve camels. So the Qazi gave half of the camels to the eldest, which is six camels. Then the second brother received one fourth, which is three camels. Finally the third brother got one sixth of twelve camels, ­which is two camels. Then the Qazi took back his own camel. The brothers thanked the Qazi, for his just decision.

80. Tit For Tat
One day, a mango vendor stopped near a paan shop and thought, "Oh! I want to eat a paan, but I don't have any money with me."
By then, the paan seller had also seen the mango vendor. He thought, "Oh! Such lovely mangoes. I wish I could eat one of those juicy ones."

So the paan seller shouted out to him, "Hey, will you exchange a mango for a paan?"

The mango vendor agreed. But the paan seller took some rotten betel leaves and made a tiny paan. He gave it the mango vendor. When the mango vendor asked for chuna, he replied, "Go and rub the paan against the wall to get chuna."

The mango vendor realized that he was being cheated. He gave a green mango to the paan seller. On seeing the green mango, the paan seller said, "Give me a yellow mango."

The mango vendor replied, "Rub your mango against that yellow painted wall and you'll get your yellow mango."

What To Buy?

One day three penniless friends saw a rupee coin on the road. As the three of them had seen the coin together, each tried to claim it. Then they decided that they would not fight but they would buy some eatable with. !he money and share it equally.

First one said, "I want to eat something which tastes sweet."

Second friend said, "But I am Jeeling hungry. I want to eat a lot of things to fill up my hungry stomach."

At this, the third intervened and said, "But I am feeling thirsty. We must drink something that would quench my thirst too. "

An old man had seen them argueing. So he led them to a fruit shop. The old man took the rupee coin from them and bought a small Bunch of grapes. He said, “You can eat it because it is sweet. It is in large numbers as one of you wished and it is juicy so it will quench your thirst. I guess you won’t fight how”.
The three friends agree and enjoyed the grapes”.

The Enemies

Earlier, the mongoose used to be a poisonous animal. All the animals used to fear him.

One day all the animals, discussed how all of them were troubled by the mongoose's cruel attacks. It was decided that the mongoose was to be stopped from such acts. Then the snake said, "I can do this task easily." And then the snake told his plan to the others. In those days, the snake was not a poisonous animal. The snake went to the mongoose and said, "My friend, I am here to warn you. All the animals are coming in a large group to snatch away your sack of poison."

"Let them come. I'll bite them to death, "the mongoose challenged.

"You can fight the smaller animals, but not the larger ones," the snake said. So the trusting mongoose gave his poison sack to the snake for safekeep, but the snake never returned it to him. Since then, the mongoose fights with the snake to gain back his poison sack.

Elephant's Long Trunk

A long, long time ago, the elephants had a small trunk. It was not as long as it is now.

One day an elephant saw a crocodile on a river bank. The elephant teased the crocodile, and? said, "Hey, you crawling creatures, I wonder why you are not small like the other creatures. You are too long for your comfort."

The crocodile lost his temper at being called a crawler. So he said, "Now I'll show you how strong a crawling creature can be!"