THE BURRO'S FILMFLAM

                                                      JAI MA KALI

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                     THE BURRO'S FILMFLAM

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       Once upon a time there lived a mercandiser in a hamlet. He dealt in salt. To vend his mercandise, he had to travel to the market by crossing a rill. So he domesticated a burro to tote the commodity to the market.He would lade the sacks,chock-a-block with salt on the back of the burro and made it accompany him to the bazaar.

    One day while crossing the rill,the burro with a very heavy weight on his back,stumbled and tumbled into the water.The sacks were drenched completely.Consequently a large quantity of salt deliquesced and the load became light enough to be lugged on comfortably.The burro was very happy and resolved to lessen the load by this bunco in future.

     The next day the cunning burro intentionally tripped and fell into the water.He was successful in reducing the weight of the salt.

  On the third day,he successfully repeated the act.

 Next time when burro,chuckling to himself,

again used his gyp to decrease the weight,the 

merchant smelt a rat and thought of a plan to pay back the burro in his own coin.

   

     The next day,the merchant laded on burro the sacks of cotton instead of salt.The burro gloating over his successful bunco,again slipped into the water.The cotton swelled with water and its weight almost doubled.The poor burro had to haul the burden by the skin of his teeth.He was full of remorse and repented for hoodwinking his master.

    The trader taught him a good lesson.

MORAL:

     1) you can pull the wool over someone's eyes for sometime but not always.

    2) Evil has never paid.It will never pay.

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----------------------DEVENDRA SRIVASTAVA

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