ANOTHER THIEF

Sheikh was not worried at all when everyone kept talking that in the kingdom there was a thief who was looting everyone.

Sheikh had earned good money but he spent so much that he had little left with him.

So he was not afraid that any thief would come to rob him because there was nothing with him worth robbing.

One night, Sheikh started feeling uneasy. He went to the terrace to walk a little before he slept.

As he walked, he started thinking about his parents. His father had died a lomg time back and his mother too had died.

He remembered how lowing his mother had been. His carefree childhood days come back to him.

His eyes filled with tears as he thought of her.

Then he started thinking of something he had loved doing during his childhood.

He had loved flying kites and now he started dreaming that he flying a kite and he was shouting to the kite, "Go up, and up."

And sheikh fell down from the terrace. While dreaming he fell over the terrace parapet, onto the ground, right on top of a thief. The thief screamed, "Ooooh!''

Sheikh did not know that the man was a thief. He got up quickly because he could feel that a man was under him who was screaming, "Oh! I am hurt very badly."

Sheikh asked the man on whom he had fallen, "Where are you hurt? Tell me."

As soon as he heard someone speaking, the man remembered that he was a thief. He started running to escape from Sheikh.

Just then the neighbours came over because they had heard Sheikh screaming.

When they saw a man running away from Sheikh, they caught him.

Then they took the man to the court and found that he was the thief who was responsible for so many robberies.

Everyone praised Sheikh for catching the thief. A neighbour took Shiekh to the king and said, "My Lord, Sheikh chilli is so brave that he jumped from the terrace to catch this thief."

The king praised his courage, "Well done Sheikh! From today onwards your full expenses will be borne by me."

Sheikh was really happy as just falling from the terrace had solved all his money problems.