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his ground and fighting, the lion took to his heels and escaped into the underbush.
Mulla Nasrudin terrified very much, was finally asked to stammer out to his wife, "YOU GO AHEAD AND SEE WHERE THE LION HAS GONE, AND I WILL TRACE BACK AND SEE WHERE HE CAME FROM."
142.
Mulla Nasrudin and a friend were chatting at a bar.
"Do you have the same trouble with your wife that I have with mine?" asked the Mulla.
"What trouble?"
"Why, money trouble. She keeps nagging me for money, money, money, and then more money," said the Mulla.
"What does she want with all the money you give her? What does she do with it?"
"I DON'T KNOW," said Nasrudin. "I NEVER GIVE HER ANY."
143.
Mulla Nasrudin's weekend guest was being driven to the station by the family chauffeur.
"I hope you won't let me miss my train," he said.
"NO, SIR," said the chauffeur. "THE MULLA SAID IF DID, I'D LOSE MY JOB."
144.
Mulla Nasrudin: "My wife has a chronic habit of sitting up every night until two and three o'clock in the morning and I can't break her of it."
Sympathetic friend: "Why does she sit up that late?"
Nasrudin: "WAITING FOR ME TO COME HOME."
145.
"Mulla, did your father leave much money when he died?"
"NO," said Mulla Nasrudin, "NOT A CENT. IT WAS THIS WAY. HE LOST HIS HEALTH GETTING WEALTHY, THEN HE LOST HIS WEALTH TRYING TO GET HEALTHY."
146.
Mulla Nasrudin, a mental patient, was chatting with the new superintendent at the state hospital. "We like you a lot better than we did the last doctor," he said.
The new superintendent was obviously pleased. "And would you mind telling me why?" he asked.
"OH, SOMEHOW YOU JUST SEEM SO MUCH MORE LIKE ONE OF US," said Nasrudin.
147.
Mulla Nasrudin: "How much did you pay for that weird-looking hat?"
Wife: "It was on sale, and I got it for a song."
Nasrudin "WELL, IF I HADN'T HEARD YOU SING. I'D SWEAR YOU HAD BEEN CHEATED."
148.
Mulla Nasrudin was a hypochondriac He has been pestering the doctors of his town to death for years.
Then one day, a young doctor,
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