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2-3 Story
of the Fisherman:
The
Husband and the Parrot
The
King said - "There was a young man who loved his wife dearly and
never left her alone. One day, by chance, he had to go to somewhere
on some important business. He went to market where all kinds of birds
were sold. There he bought a parrot. His specialty was that he could tell
even about what had happened before. He brought him home in a cage and
asked his wife to hang that cage in her room and take great care of him
while he was away. When he came back, he asked the parrot to tell him what
happened in his absence. He told him some things about his wife that he
had to scold her.
First
the wife thought that one of her slave told him those things, but later
she came to know that it was not the slave, but it was the parrot who told
him about her, so she decided to take revenge from him. One day when her
husband was out for one day, she asked her one slave to turn on a
hand-mill under the cage of the parrot; and the other slave to pour water
on the cage; and a third one to take a mirror and put it in front of his
eyes. The slaves did it very well.
The
next day when the husband came he asked his parrot what he had seen. The
parrot said - "My master, Lightening, thunder and rain disturbed me
so much all night long that what I suffered I cannot tell you." The
husband knew that there was n o thunder, no lightening yesterday, got
convinced that the parrot was lying. he got so angry with him that he
threw him on the ground so badly that he died. Although later he had to
repent for his action, because he was speaking the truth."
Fisherman
continued the story - "O Genie, When the Greek King finished his
story, he said to the Vazeer - "In the same way, I will not listen to
you and I will take care of the physician, in case I will have to repent
later." But the Vazeer was determined in his intentions, so he said -
"Your Majesty, The parrot was just a bird, but it comes to life a
King, it is better to sacrifice an innocent than save the guilty. I can
prove you that the physician wants to kill you. If I am wrong, I should be
punished, as a Vazeer was once punished." The King asked - "What
that did so that he was punished?" The Vazeer said - "I tell
you, Your Majesty, if you care to listen to."
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