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TAX PEOPLE."
70.
Mulla Nasrudin let out a burst of profanity which shocked a lady social worker who was passing by. She looked at him critically and said: "My, where did you learn such awful language?"
"WHERE DID I LEARN IT?" said Nasrudin. "LADY, I DIDN'T LEARN IT, IT'S A GIFT."
71.
Mulla Nasrudin was talking to his friends in the teahouse about the new preacher.
"That man, ' said the Mulla, "is the talkingest person in the world. And he can't be telling the truth all the time. THERE JUST IS NOT THAT MUCH TRUTH."
72.
"My wife talks to herself," the friend told Mulla Nasrudin.
"SO DOES MINE," said the Mulla, "BUT SHE DOESN'T REALISE IT. SHE THINKS I AM LISTENING."
73.
The man climbed on the stool at a little lunch counter for breakfast. "Quite a rainy spell, isn't it?" he said to Mulla Nasrudin, the man next to him. "Almost like the flood."
"Flood? What flood?" said the Mulla.
"Why, the flood," the first man said, "you know Noah and the Ark and Mount Ararat."
"NOPE," said Mulla Nasrudin, "I HAVE NOT READ THE MORNING PAPER, YET, SIR."
74.
A preacher approached Mulla Nasrudin lying in the gutter.
"And so," he asked, "this is the work of whisky, isn't it?"
"NO," said Nasrudin. "THIS IS THE WORK OF A BANANA PEEL, SIR."
75.
Mulla Nasrudin came up to a preacher and said that he wanted to be transformed to the religious life totally. "That's fine," said the preacher, "but are you sure you are going to put aside all sin?"
"Yes Sir, I am through with sin," said the Mulla.
"And are you going to pay up all your debts?" asked the preacher.
"NOW WAIT A MINUTE, PREACHER," said Nasrudin, "YOU AIN'T TALKING RELIGION NOW, YOU ARE TALKING BUSINESS."
76.
"It is being rumoured around town," a friend said to Mulla Nasrudin, "that you and your wife are not getting along too well. Is there anything to it?"
"NONSENSE," said Nasrudin. "WE DID HAVE A FEW WORDS AND I SHOT HER. BUT THAT'S AS FAR AS IT WENT."
77.
The word had passed around that Mulla Nasrudin's wife had left him. While the news was
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