Sunday, September 20, 2015

THE WISE CAP SELLER


A cap seller had gone to another village to sell his caps. He could not sell many caps.
As he was walking back to his village, he began to feel very tired.
He sat down under a tree to rest and kept his bag full of caps on one side.
He was so very tired that he fell asleep almost immediately. When he got up he could not see his bag of caps.
He was very worried. He looked around. Then he saw his empty bag lying nearby. The cap seller thought, "Where are the caps? If my bag is here, then my caps must be here too."
Suddenly, he felt as if many eyes were watching him. He looked up and was very surprised.
There were many monkeys on the tree and they were all wearing his caps on their heads.
The cap seller wanted his caps. So he shouted at the monkeys, but they did not move at all.
The poor cap seller became worried. If he didn't back his caps, he would lose a lot of money.
So he tried shaking the tree, but the monkeys kept sitting there. The cap seller was already very tired, but he did not give up. He decided to use his intelligence to find a way out.
He sat down to test, and started thinking of ways to get back the caps from the monkeys.
He thought, "What do I know about monkeys? I know that they eat bananas but I don't have bananas with me."
Then, suddenly an idea came to his mind. He knew that monkeys after did what they saw others doing.
They loved to imitate others. So the cap seller got up and stood in a place where he could see all the monkeys and the monkeys could see him.
Then the cap seller brought his hand over his head and caught his own cap.
He threw his cap on the ground. At once, all the copycat monkeys too threw their caps on the ground.

Quickly, the cap seller picked up his caps and ran away from there.

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