From  The Subtleties of the Inimitable
Mulla Nasrudin
by Idries Shah


A REASON FOR EVERYTHING

Nasrudin, starving with hunger went to a cafe and started to fill his mouth with food, using both hands.

His neighbour was passing, and stopped.

'Why eat with two hands, Mulla?'

'Because I haven't got three.'


[Reload for another story.]

©Octagon Press, 1972 (ISHK Bookservice).

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