Story of The Old Man, His young wife
and Thief
There lived an old widowed merchant in a
city in the south. Though old, he did not give up his desire for another
wife. Therefore, he gave lots of money to a poor merchant and married his
young daughter. She never loved her old husband. One day, when the husband
and wife were sleeping on different sides of the bed, a thief entered their
house. Shocked by the sight of the thief, the wife embraced her husband in
fear.
The husband was both thrilled and
surprised by the embrace and began thinking about what made her do so. He
searched every nook and corner of the house and at last found the thief
lurking in a corner. He then realised that his wife had embraced him because
the thief had frightened her. The husband told the thief, “My dear young
man, today I had the fortune of being hugged by my wife. Thanks to you. Take
away whatever you want.”
The thief replied, “My dear sir, I do not
find anything in your house that I could take with me. But I will come back
soon and see if there is anything to carry away. Or, you could call whenever
you need love from your wife.”
Moral of
the Story :
Sometime even thief could do some good for someone, if you gave asylum. |