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The Alternative
Why We Are Here
Never Know When It Might Come in Useful
See What I mean?
If a Pot Can Multiply
The Smuggler
How Nasrudin Created Truth
The Cat and the Meat
There Is More Light Here
The Fool
Cooking by Candle
Danger Has No Favorites
Salt Is Not Wool
Can Good Turns Be Accidental?
The Unsuspected Element
The Burglars
Eating-Matter and Reading-Matter
Adventures in the Desert
Circumstances Alter Cases
The Food of the Cloak
The Sermon of Nasrudin
His Excellency
Nasrudin and the Wise Men
Judgment
First Things FIrst
Whose Shot Was That?
The Magic Bag
Fear
The Robe
Saved His Life
Four-Legged
Quiz
The Sign
All Her Fault
The Ways of Foreigners
Burnt Foot
Old Moons
Letter of the Law
The Cat is Wet
Sleep Is an Activity
The Child is Father to the Man
Every Little Helps
Hidden Depths
Back to Front
Principles of Life-Saving
Unsuited
Creeping Up on Himself
His Need is Greater Than Mine
Caught
But For the Grace...
Takes After His Father
Light the Candle
Learning the Hard Way
Something Fell
The Last Day
I'll Take the Nine
He Knows the Answer
What a Bird Should Look Like
The Veil
Your Poor Old Mother
I Know Her Best
The Secret
Do Not Disturb the Camels
Happiness is Not Where Your Seek It
Early to Rise
The Majesty of the Sea
Moment in Time
Division of Labor
You Can't Be Too Careful
All I Needed Was Time
Cut Down on Your Harness Intake
At Court
Theoretical Instances
The Pace of Life
The Sample
Other People's Mail
Why Didn't You Tell Me Before?
Supply and Demand
The Value of the Past
Aplomb
Kinds of Day
Alone in the Desert
Maiden in Distress
Unfair
What Has Gone Before...
All You Need
Why Are We Waiting?
The Flood
The Omen
Turnips Are Harder
How Nasrudin Spoke Up
In the Midst of Life
Awake or Asleep?
The Short Cut
Change the Subject
The Rope and the Sky
Who Am I?
I'd Have Shown You
Only One Thing Wrong With It
Duck Soup
