I AM A 'MOUSE'

"Oh you cats, leave me! Don't chase me. Go away all of you," yelled Sheikh.

His mother had been sleeping. She woke up when she heard Sheikh shouting and screaming in his sleep.

She shouted, "Wake up, Sheikh. You have been dreaming."

Sheikh woke up and said, "Many cats are after me"

"There are no cats here Sheikh. Did you dream again that you are a mouse?" she asked, feeling concerned for her son.

"Yes, Mother and all the cats of the village were after me. See I am still a mouse," cried Sheikh.

"No, you are not a mouse. You are a boy .My poor child, don't worry. I will take you to the doctor's," consoled his mother.

Next day, Sheikh's the doctor that Sheikh had started getting nightmares of cats chasing him.

The doctor asked some question about his childhood and she said, "When Sheikh was a baby, a cat had scratched him badly. Do you think that could be the reason for these dreams?"

"Maybe, but don't worry. Let Sheikh take this medicine. Bring him to me every evening," said the doctor to sheikh's mother.

As they were leaving, the doctor advised, "Sheikh, just try and remembered that you are a boy and a very handsome boy."

Sheikh became very happy on being praised and every evening he would go to doctor.

The doctor would listen to him for an hour and the medicine he gave was just to help Sheikh get a good night sleep.

One day, as Sheikh came out after visiting the doctor, he saw a cat and feeling scared, he hid behind the doctor.

The doctor said, "The cat can do nothing to you. You are a boy who is bigger than the cat. You are not a mouse." doctor, but has anyone told the cat?"

The doctor laughed and said, "A boy who can speak like this cannot be a mouse."

After regular treatment, finally the bad dreams stopped and sheikh stopped thinking that he was a mouse being chased by cats. His mother was a relieved person.

  

Man in the graveyard

The foolishness of Sheikh Chilli had always troubled his mother. Now she wanted him to learn about life, the difficulties and become more worldly wise.

So when a relative died, she sent Sheikh to the funeral. It was the first time that Sheikh had seen a graveyard.

Next night, Sheikh was near the same graveyard on his way back from the village where he had gone for a feast.

Suddenly he heard th voice of a many yelling, "Help! Help!"

Sheikh strained his ears to find out where the voice was coming from. He looked above and around.

Then he saw a man who had fallen into a ditch by the side of the graveyard.

The man shouted, "Please take me out form here. It is very cold here."

Sheikh remembered that earlier when he had come to the graveyard, the dead body had been buried under mud.

Now he said, "Of course I know why you are feeling cold. They forgot to put mud on you."

Sheikh Chilli started throwing mud on the man in the ditch, while the man continued screaming that he was not dead, but alive.