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looked very severe. "Mulla," he said, "your wife says you hit her over the head with a baseball bat and threw her down a flight of stairs. What have you got to say for yourself?"
Mulla Nasrudin rubbed the side of his nose with his hand and meditated. Finally he said: "Your Honour, I guess there are three sides to this case: my wife's story, my story and the truth."
122.
Mulla Nasrudin awoke his wife in a great state of excitement. "Quick," he cried, "give me my spectacles before I wake up." When his wife brought them to him, he explained, "I am having a beautiful dream, but there are one or two things in it I can't make out."
123.
Mulla Nasrudin received a note that read: "Leave a thousand rupees under the cottonwood tree in Pizitz Square Tuesday night, or we will kidnap your wife and you will never see her again." The Mulla answered: "I haven't got any thousand rupees, and I am counting on you boys to keep your promise."
124.
Mulla Nasrudin, a race track habitue, told his wife: "The darndest thing happened to me this afternoon. I was bending down to tie my shoe-lace and some near-sighted goon strapped a saddle on me."
"What did you do?" asked his wife.
"What the hell could I do?" complained Nasrudin. "I came in third."
125.
Mulla Nasrudin rushed up to a farmer on the road and said: "I am looking for an escaped lunatic, my wife. Did she pass this way?"
The farmer puffed thoughtfully on his corn cob pipe and asked: "What does she look like?"
"She is very short," said Nasrudin, "and she is very thin and she weighs about 350 pounds."
The farmer looked at him in amazement. "How can a woman be short and thin and still weigh 350 pounds?" he asked.
"Don't act so surprised," said Nasrudin angrily. "I told you she was crazy."
126.
Mrs. Mulla Nasrudin: "I suppose all geniuses are conceited."
Mulla Nasrudin: "Some of them -- but I am not."
127.
Mulla Nasrudin's wife had fallen headlong down a steep incline and lay motionless at the bottom.
Nasrudin, fearful of the consequence, leaned over the tip of the incline and called out: "Fatima,
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