There was once a hat-seller who passed by a forest. The weather was very
hot and he decided to take a nap under one of the trees, so he left his
whole basket of hats by the side. A few hours later, he woke up and
realized that all his hats were gone. Then he heard some monkeys on top of
the tree and he looked up. To his surprise, the tree was full of monkeys.
They had taken all his hats!
The hat-seller sits down and tries to think of how he can get the hats
down. He started to think and scratched his head. The next moment, he
realized that the monkeys were doing the same thing. Next, he took down his
own hat and fanned himself. The monkeys did exactly the same! An idea
struck him - he took his hat and threw it on the floor. And the monkeys did
the same too. Happily, he collected all his hats back.
Fifty years later, his grandson also became a hat-seller and also got to
hear the monkey story from his grandfather. One day, just like his
grandfather, he passed by the same forest. Feeling very hot, he took a nap
under the same tree and left the hats on the floor. Again, when he woke up,
he realized that all his hats were gone. He looked up and found that the
monkeys had taken all his hats.
Remembering what his grandfather had told him, he started scratching his
head and the monkeys followed. He took down his hat and fanned himself and
again the monkeys followed. Now, very convinced of his grandfather's idea,
he threw his hat on the floor... but to his surprise, the monkeys still
held on to all the hats! Then one bold monkey climbed down the tree,
grabbed the hat on the floor, and sneered ... "you think say na only you
get grand-papa??" |