There was once a hat-seller who passed by a forest.
The weather was very
hot and he decided to take a nap under one of the
trees, so he left his
whole basket of hats by the side.
A few hours later, he woke up and realized that all his
hats were gone.
Then he heard some monkeys on top of the tree and he
looked up. To his
surprise, the tree was full of monkeys. They had taken
all his hats!
The hat-seller sits down and try to think of how he can
get the hats down.
He started to think and scratched his head. The next
moment, he realized
that the monkeys were doing the same thing.
Next, he took down his own hat and fanned himself.
The monkeys did exactly
the same! An idea struck him - he took his hat and
threw it on the floor.
And the monkeys did the same too. Happily, he
collected all his hats back.
Fifty years later, his grandson also became a hat-seller
and also got to
hear the monkey story from his grandfather. One day,
just like his
grandfather, he passed by the same forest. Feeling very
hot, he took a nap
under the same tree and left the hats on the floor.
Again, when he woke up, he realized that all his hats
were gone. He looked
up and found that the monkeys had taken all his hats.
Remembering what his
grandfather had told him, he started scratching his
head and the monkeys
followed.
He took down his hat and fanned himself and again the
monkeys followed.
Now, very convinced of his grandfather's idea, he
threw his hat on the
floor, but to his surprise, the monkeys still held on to
all the hats!
Then one bold monkey climbed down the tree, grabbed
the hat on the floor,
and sneered , "you think say na only you get grand-
papa??"