One fine morning Mulla was walking home. Suddenly it occurred to him that he could shorten his path by turning off the dusty road and walking the rest of the way through the forest.
- Great day, happy searching day! - Mulla exclaimed, turning into a thicket.
Before he had time to look back, he found himself at the bottom of a disguised wolf pit.
“It’s good that I took a shortcut,” Mulla thought, lying on the ground. “If this trouble could happen in the midst of such beauty, then anything could happen on a dusty and terribly boring road.”
Parables about Mulla Nasreddin
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru