One day the Hodja invited his friends over for dinner. He told them that he was going to prepare a meal with roasted quails. Nasreddin Hodja's friends, in their unceasing quest to baffle him, thought of a prank and came to dinner prepared.
When the quails were cooked, the Hodja placed them in his old, big, tin serving platter and put the lid on to prevent them from getting cold. He brought the covered platter to the dinner table and went back to the kitchen to bring other things. While he was in the kitchen, the well-prepared pranksters, hid the platter with the cooked quails and replaced it with another one that contained live quails.
