Once,
a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was very tired and
needed to rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree. He
placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his
head.
The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got
up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled
when he found all his caps were not there.
When he looked up the
sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a
tree, each of the monkeys is wearing a cap of on its head. They had
evidently done it to imitate him
He decided to get his caps back
by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys only
made faces of him. When he begun to make gesture, the monkeys also
imitated him.
At last he found a clever idea. ” Monkeys are a
great imitator,” he thought. So he took off his own cap and threw it
down on the ground. And as he had expected, all the monkeys took off
the caps and threw the caps down on the ground. Quickly, he stood up
and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.
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