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GOOD FOR TEN YEARS YET."
104.
Mulla Nasrudin was told he would lose his phone if he did not retract what he had said to the General Manager of the phone company in the course of a conversation over the wire.
"Very well, Mulla Nasrudin will apologize," he said.
He called Main 7777.
"Is that you, Mr. Doolittle?"
"It is."
"This is Mulla Nasrudin.
"Well?"
"This morning in the heat of discussion I told you to go to hell!"
"Yes?"
"WELL," said Nasrudin, "DON'T GO!"
105.
A political leader was visiting the mental hospital. Mulla Nasrudin sitting in the yard said, "You are a politician, are you not?"
"Yes," said the leader. "I live just down the road."
"I used to be a politician myself once," said the Mulla, "but now I am crazy. Have you ever been crazy?"
"No," said the politician as he started to go away.
"WELL, YOU OUGHT TRY IT," said Nasrudin "IT BEATS POLITICS ANY DAY."
106.
The editor of the town weekly received this letter from Mulla Nasrudin:
"Dear Sir: Last week I lost my watch which I valued highly. The next day I ran an ad in your paper.
Yesterday, I went home and found the watch in the pocket of my brown suit. YOUR PAPER IS WONDERFUL!"
107.
Mulla Nasrudin had been out speaking all day and returned home late at night, tired and weary.
"How did your speeches go today?" his wife asked.
"All right, I guess," the Mulla said. "But I am afraid some of the people in the audience didn't understand some of the things I was saying."
"What makes you think that?" his wife asked.
"BECAUSE," whispered Mulla Nasrudin, "I DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM MYSELF."
108.
Mulla Nasrudin, a distraught father, visiting his son in a prison waiting room, turned on him and said:
"I am fed up with you. Look at your record: attempted robbery, attempted robbery, attempted burglary, attempted murder. WHAT A FAILURE YOU HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE; YOU CAN'T SUCCEED IN ANYTHING YOU TRY."
109.
Mulla Nasrudin and some of his friends pooled their money and bought a tavern. They immediately
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