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would bark sharply to indicate "Check!"
The customer, finally recovered from his stupefaction, gasped out, "Hey, that's a smart dog you have got there."
And Mulla Nasrudin answered: "Not so smart! I have beat him three times out of five so far."
47.
"If you will give me your telephone number, I will call you up some time."
Mulla Nasrudin: "It's in the book."
"fine! And what's your name, sir?"
Mulla Nasrudin: "That's in the book, too!"
48.
Friend: "How do you spend your income, Mulla?"
Mulla Nasrudin: "About 30 per cent for shelter, 30 per cent for clothing, 40 per cent for food, and 20 per cent for amusement."
Friend: "But that adds up to 120 per cent."
Nasrudin: "That's right."
49.
Mulla Nasrudin and his friend sat silently over their beers, each sunk in misery.
Finally, the friend heaved a sigh and said: "I wish I were dead."
Nasrudin sighed in his turn and said: "If only I felt that good."
50.
Mulla Nasrudin used to say: "I grew so disturbed with everything I read about the connection between smoking and cancer that I finally simply forced myself to give up reading."
51.
Once Mulla Nasrudin was stopped by a thief who said: "Your money or your life."
The Mulla closed his eyes and there followed a lengthening silence.
Finally, the thief said again: "Come on, your money or your life."
Mulla Nasrudin opened his eyes and said querulously: "I am thinking! I am thinking!"
52.
A friend met Mulla Nasrudin for the first time in five years.
"Tell me, Mulla," said he, "did you marry that girl, or do you still darn your own socks and do your cooking?"
"Yes," was Mulla Nasrudin's reply.
53.
Mulla Nasrudin and his friend Sheikh Abdulla approached each other one night in the tavern.
"Good morning, Nasrudin. How are you?"
"I am fine, Abdulla, but my name is not Nasrudin."
"Mine's not Abdulla, either."
"Not to worry," said Mulla Nasrudin. "we are probably not ourselves today."
54.
Mulla Nasrudin: "I suppose you could say I have an uncanny
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