Nasruddin handed a boy a pitcher and told him to go fetch water from the well.
Before the kid set out, however, he clouted him on the ear and shouted. “Mind you don’t drop it!”
An onlooker said, “How can you strike a poor child before he has done anything wrong?”
Said Nasruddin, “I suppose you would prefer me to strike him AFTER he has broken
the pitcher when both the pitcher and the water are lost? When I clout him he
remembers and so the pot and the water are both saved.”
🙂
Nasruddin handed a boy a pitcher and told him to go fetch water from the well.
Before the kid set out, however, he clouted him on the ear and shouted. “Mind you don’t drop it!”
An onlooker said, “How can you strike a poor child before he has done anything wrong?”
Said Nasruddin, “I suppose you would prefer me to strike him AFTER he has broken
the pitcher when both the pitcher and the water are lost? When I clout him he
remembers and so the pot and the water are both saved.”
🙂