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"Kinda cold sitting on your front porch in this weather, isn't it, Mulla?"
Mulla Nasrudin: "Well, yes, a little, but you see my wife is taking her singing lesson, and I don't want the neighbours to think that I am beating her up."
180.
Mulla Nasrudin awoke early one morning and shook his wife until she awoke with a start. "What's the matter, darling?" she inquired hazily.
"Fatima," said Nasrudin firmly, "if I dream once more that you have kissed another man, I will never talk to you again as long as I live."
181.
Mulla Nasrudin: "On your way to Abdulla and sons you will pass a football ground."
Office Boy (hopefully): "Yes, sir!"
Nasrudin: "Well, pass it!"
182.
Three girls and Mulla Nasrudin were brought before the presiding judge. The girls had been arrested for soliciting and the Mulla was arrested for peddling without a license.
"What do you do for a living?" the judge asked, pointing to the first girl.
"Your honor, I am a model," she answered.
"Thirty days," was the sentence.
Then he turned to the second. "What do you do for a living?" he asked.
"Your honor, I am a T.V. actress."
"Thirty days." Then he turned to the third girl. "What do you do for a living?" he demanded.
"To tell you the truth," she answered, "I am a prostitute."
"For telling the truth," he said, "I am going to suspend sentence." Then he turned to Mulla Nasrudin. "And you," he said, "what do you do for a living?"
"To tell you the truth," said Nasrudin, twirling his hat in his hands, "I am a prostitute also, your honor."
183.
During a play, the curtain fell suddenly and the manager of the theater stepped out before the audience in the last degree of agitation.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I am distressed to have to tell you that the great and beloved actor, Mendel Kalb, has just had a fatal heart attack in his dressing room and we cannot continue."
Whereupon Mulla Nasrudin rose in the balcony and cried out: "Quick! Give him some chicken soup."
The manager, surprised, said: "Sir, I said it was a fatal heart attack. the great
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