The Feast
(Najamuddin Ghanghro, Karachi(original from Larkana))
One the King decided to give a
feast for his people. He sent his men to every village. They told the people to
come to the King’s Palace and said, "The King asks each of the men to bring one
bottle of a Milk and pour it into a pot at the door."
The day of the feast came. People put on their best clothes and walked to the
King's Palace with their families. They stopped at the door of the King's palace
and poured their bottles into a very big pot at the door.
There was a man who wanted to go to the feast very much. But he had no milk
bottle at home. His wife said to him, "You must buy some Milk."
But the man answered, "What? No. I don't want to buy milk for a feast that is
free. No. No!"
He thought a little and then said, "Hundreds of people will bring their milk and
pour it into the pot. A bottle of water cannot be bad for so much milk."
And so he went to the feast with a bottle of water. He poured his bottle into
the pot as other people did. Then he sat down at the table with all the other
people and waited for the glass of Milk which he liked so much.
The King f said, "Let's drink Milk, dear guests!" All the guests took their
glasses. But what they drank was not Milk, but water!
So our man was not the only one who thought, "A bottle of water cannot be bad
for so much milk as each and every one thought , what our man thought and came
with a bottle of water."