Porter

One day the Mullah Nasruddin made a lot of shopping at the market place and found a porter to carry all of his purchases. The porter had a large basket on his back and Mullah Nasruddin loaded everything he bought into the porter's basket. They headed towards the Mullah's home, Mullah walking at the front and the porter following behind. However, the dishonest porter preferred to make off with Mullah's purchases than receiving a porter's fee. By the time Mullah noticed that the porter was no longer following him, the swindler had disappeared from sight. Mullah complained to his friends and neighbours but the porter was nowhere to be found.

Ten days later, as the Mullah and his friends were sitting in the coffee house, someone spotted the thief porter.

`Look Mullah, isn't that the porter you lost?' Mullah's friend pointed the man to Mullah. But Mullah Nasruddin, instead of going up to the man and confronting him, tried to hide.

`Mullah!' everyone in the coffee house was surprised, `Why don't you go and face the man?'

`What if,' the Mullah said, `he asks me to pay him ten-days-worth of porter fee?'