One day, Molla Nasreddin, traveling around the world, wandered into a village where very tight-fisted people lived. Molla tried by hook or by crook to get food from them, but they drove him away. Then Molla pretended to be mad and walked through the streets of the village, shouting:
- I want to eat! I'm hungry! Give me bread, sweets and manure! Give me manure, bread, sherbet! I'll eat it all! Let me eat!
Deciding to have fun, people brought everything called Molloy. Nudged each other with their elbows, they began to laugh:
- Let's see how this madman is going to eat manure in sherbet - with or without bread?
Molla ate all the food, but did not touch the manure.
- What are you doing? - the villagers asked in disappointment. - After all, you promised to eat dung!
- Yes, he looks somehow suspicious! - Nasreddin answered. - It seems to me that you poisoned him! First, you try it yourself - then I won’t refuse.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru