A Resourceful Householder

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A Resourceful Householder-Unknown Author

 

A MAN called Krishna and his wife were living alone in a house. One

evening, as the couple were sitting in the hall, the husband descried a

well-known ex-convict of most desperate character hiding in the loft.

To shout out would mean certain escape of the marauder and possibly

also some hurt at his hands before help could come. Not to shout out

would mean robbery at night accompanied with violence.

 

At last, a brilliant idea struck the husband. There was a sturdy

neighbour called Rama who had caught many thieves before. The husband

told his wife, 'My dear, you are pregnant now. You will deliver a child

soon. If it turns out to be a male, as I expect it will be, I shall

name it Rama, and at the age of five I shall send it to school. I shall

insist that it should come home every day at 5.30 p.m. precisely.'

 

'What if he does not come at that time?' asked the wife. 'I shall

shout out, " Rama, Rama, " ' replied the husband shouting out 'Rama' in a

loud voice.

 

'What if he does not come still?' asked the wife. 'I shall shout

out again, " Rama, " " Rama, " " Rama, " " Rama, " " Rama " till he comes,'

replied the husband shouting out the name, 'Rama' at the top of his

voice.

 

The neighbour Rama and others came rushing to the house hearing the

shouts and enquired of the husband as to what the matter was. 'Somebody

in the loft wants you,' replied the husband pointing to the ex-convict

who was speedily secured, put up for trial before a court and sentenced

to serve a long term. The ex-convict swore vengeance on the

resourceful man who had brought about his arrest. One day, shortly

after his release, he hid himself in the rubbish pit outside the house

in order to escape all chances of detection. When Krishna went to rinse

his mouth after meals at the rubbish heap as usual, he perceived a

slight movement in the rubbish heap as the water fell on it. His

suspicions were fully roused.

 

He asked his wife to bring pot after pot of water and continued to

rinse his mouth and eject the water on the rubbish heap where the

ex-convict was concealed. The ex-convict, determined not to be found

out this time, kept absolutely motionless in spite of the shower bath

he was receiving. But Krishna's wife, not knowing the reason for her

husband's strange action asked him, 'Has your mouth turned a gutter

that you rinse it so many times? I cannot bring any more water.' On

which, Krishna spat one mouthful of water on her. The poor woman raised

a loud hue and cry fully believing that her husband had gone mad.

 

Rama and all other neighbours came running and enquired of Krishna

as to what the matter was. 'This wretched woman,' said Krishna, 'whom I

feed and clothe raised all this alarm because I spat at her once

whereas this man here (pointing to the concealed robber) whom I never

once fed or clothed has patiently borne at least a hundred spittings

without one word of murmur.' The assembled villagers at once secured

the concealed marauder who was once again put up before a magistrate

and this time sentenced to a good long term of hard labour. -- With Love,Ganesh Baba

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