AG Ahmad

  Moral Story No: 39 Think Wisely, Act Quickly. The Cap-seller And the Monkeys            Once, there was a cap-seller. One day, as usual, he started for the market with his caps. On the way, he found a shady tree. He thought of taking a rest under it. He put his ten caps on the ground and lay down near them. Soon, he went to sleep.           When the cap-seller woke up, he did not find any of his caps. He was very surprised and in fact was horribly shocked. He looked around and also upwards. He saw ten monkeys sitting on the tree each wearing a cap. He thought of catching the monkeys to get his caps back. But it was not easy to do so in a normal way.            After some careful thought, the cap-seller hit upon a novel (very new) idea and at once started acting on it. He snatched his cap off his head and threw it down on the gr...