Hodja needed a large cooking contained so he borrowed his neighbour’s copper cauldron.
Hodja returned the cauldron after he used it. However, there was a baby cauldron inside the large cauldron. The neighbour did not believe that the cauldron could have babies and he thought that Hodja was mad, but he kept both cauldrons.
One day, Hodja needed the cauldron again. So he borrowed it from his neighbour.
This time Hodja did not return the cauldron. Hodja said that the cauldron had died. His neighbour went to Hodja’s house and was really cross. He did not believe Hodja but Hodja said that if a cauldron could have babies, then surely it could die too.
The neighbour decided to teach Hodja a lesson. He spoke to his friends and they decided to play a trick on Hodja.
Then the neighbour took a bet with Hodja. If Hodja could spend one cold night in the town square, then the neighbour would cook dinner for Hodja.
Hodja agreed and spent the night in the freezing cold. However, the neighbour said that Hodja had cheated. He said that Hodja had kept warm by the light of the oil lamp burning in a house that was miles away.
Hodja knew that the neighbour was trying to trick him. So he played a trick on the neighbour and his friends too. He invited them for dinner but got a small candle to heat the cauldron…The cauldron never got warm and the neighbour and his friends never got their dinner!
Clever Hodja!
