One day, when Akbar
saw Hodja coming on foot, he promised him to give a horse. Accordingly, he
instructed his stable man to give a horse to Hodja. Now, it so happened that
the stable man selected a very weak and sick horse from the stable and sent it
to Hodja's house. The horse was so weak and sick that it died on the same night
it was delivered.
When next day Akbar
saw Hodja coming on foot again, he asked in surprise, "What happened to
your horse, I arranged yesterday?" Hodja said, "Jahaanpanaah, the
horse had a fleet of feet that it crossed the distance from earth to Heaven in
one night."
Akbar was very sorry
to know this, and this time he arranged a very good horse for him.
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