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not been good to my wife and I have often spent all my wages on gambling and beer. But, if you spare me life now, I promise...."
"Hang on a minute," interrupted Nasrudin. "don't go too far. I think I can see a boat."
73.
Mulla Nasrudin's old friend Haider Ali died. He was the only atheist in the whole town but the people came to his wake just the same.
Mulla Nasrudin, looking at the corpse laid out in his best suit, said: "What a waste! All dressed up and nowhere to go!"
74.
The prosecuting counsel was having a little trouble with a rather difficult witness, Mulla Nasrudin. Exasperated by the Mulla's evasive answers, he asked him if he was acquainted with any of the jury.
]"Yes, sir, more than half of them," replied the Mulla.
"Are you willing to swear that you know more than half of them?" asked the counsel.
"If it comes to that, I am willing to swear that I know more than all of them put together," said Mulla Nasrudin.
75.
Mulla Nasrudin, in a tailor shop, was viewing his new suit in a three way mirror.
The tailor asked: "Well, what do you think, Mulla?"
"Great," said Nasrudin. "I will take all three of them."
76.
A local bak failed and there was a wildly cursing, milling mob of frantic depositors pounding on the doors. In the centre of this half-crazed, shouting crowd was Mulla Nasrudin running his mouth louder than the rest. "They should string up the president of this bank to a lamp post... also the board of the trustees! To take the poor depositors' hard earned cash.... the poor depositors now left without homes or bread.... we should send the bank officials to Siberia to the salt mines..... the dirty crooks!" Finally a policeman walked over to the Mulla and asked, "Look, mister, have you got any money in this bank, may i ask....?"
"Listen, officer," came Mulla Nasrudin's answer, "If I had nay money in this bank, would I be taking it so lightly?"
77.
Mulla Nasrudin had his suspicions. One day he left work early, and sure enough, when he arrived home, he found a strange hat and umbrella in the hallway and his wife on the couch in the
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