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"It said: 'Keep this bottle tightly corked'."
40.
Mulla Nasrudin said to the bartender: "Have you seen Sheikh Abdulla around here in the last hour and a half?"
"Yes, he was here," said the bartender.
"Good," said Mulla Nasrudin. "Did you notice whether I was with him?"
41.
Mulla Nasrudin walked out of a hall where a politician was addressing a meeting. Someone in the corridor asked him of the speaker had finished his speech. "Yes," said Nasrudin. "He finished his speech shortly after he started, but he has not stopped yet."
42. Mulla Nasrudin, a candidate for the police force, was being verbally examined. "If you were by yourself in a police car and were pursued by a desperate gang of criminals in another car doing forty miles an hour along a lonely road, what would you do?"
The Mulla looked puzzled for a moment and then replied: "Fifty."
43.
An exasperated politician was being heckled.
"There seems to be a great many fools here tonight," he exclaimed. "I wonder if it would be advisable to hear one at a time."
"That's fair enough," shouted Mulla Nasrudin in the audience. "Finish your speech."
44.
Mulla Nasrudin left the gas turned on in his little shop one night and upon arriving in the morning struck a match to light it.
There was a terrific explosion, and the Mulla was blown out through the door.
A passer-by rushed to his assistance, and inquired if he was injured.
Nasrudin gazed at his place of business, which was now burning quite briskly, and said:
"No, I ain't hurt. But I got out just in time, eh?"
45.
"I sent my little boy for two pounds of plums and you only sent a pound and a half. Are you scales correct, Mulla?"
"My scales are all right, madam," said Mulla Nasrudin. "Have you weighed your little boy?"
46.
A man entered Mulla Nasrudin's shop, which he found empty except for the Mulla, who was playing chess with a dog. The dog, watching the board intently, made his moves by grasping the particular chessman in his teeth. He wagged his tail wildly when he made a good move and, on occasion, would bark
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