HODJA STORIES

• The Scholarly Coachman
• Sweet Quarrels
• Super Salesman
• Hodja in the Dust
• Hodja Postpones Paying
• The Mulla Pleads Poverty
• The Mulla In A Muddle
• Sour Reply
• Fired by Fear
• Milk for the Mullah
• The Mind-Reader
• Speedy Ox
• Hodja's Rich Dream
• The Donkey's Relatives
• Hodja's Holy House
• Hodja Goes To A Tailor
• A Question of Time
• Hodja is Relieved
• Hodja and the Scholar
• Hodja's Donkey
• Hodja Suggests a Remedy
• Hodja Refuses to Write
• Hodja, the King
• The Incomplete Coffin

Hodja Suggests a Remedy

One day Hodja met an acquaintance in the street.
The man looked worried and Hodja asked him what was troubling him.
"I have this terrible dream," said the man. "Every night I dream there's a monster hiding under the bed. When I get up and look there's no one there nut I can't sleep afterwards. I am on my way to the doctor's house now. He says he can cure me for a hundred dinars."
"A hundred dinars!" exclaimed Hodja. "I can rid you of your problem for five!"
The man immediately took out 5 dinars and gave them to Hodja.
"Now tell me what to do," said the man.
"The remedy is simple," said Hodja, pocketing the money.
"Saw off the legs of the bed."