Chandamama Story 1950s:
All that the rich man owned was a Herd of Elephants.
When he died they broke his Chest and found his Will dividing his Elephants among his four sons as follows:
"Half his herd should go to his first, half of the remaining to his second, half of the remaining to his third and the rest to his fourth".
The Elephants in his Herd then were just 15.
Everyone was baffled how to execute the Old Man's Will.
Just then a passerby riding his Elephant asked what the puzzlement was.
He then stood his own Elephant at the end of a line along with the 15, making 16 in all.
He gave 8 to the first son, then 4 to the second, then 2 to the third, and the rest 2 to the fourth and asked him to return his own Elephant and rode it away....
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True Story; no Gul:
About 3 months back I was in our nukkad Marwari Shop:
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And noticed a tall transparent plastic jar at one end of the Counter Desk.
The mouth of the jar was sealed by a tough linen cloth leaving a slit on top.
The side of the jar had this legend:
"Contribute generously to the Unwanted Children Fund: ....Sevashram".
I noticed that the jar was filled by one rupee coins to about a fourth of its height.
I struck a Deal with my young friend, the Grandkid, who was manning the Counter and slipped a Rs 50 Note, folding it up.
Every now and then later on I was looking at the contents of the jar and was pleased to note that no more coins were inserted but only Rs 10 and 20 Currency Notes.
This morning the Grandkid called me up on my mobile to say that the Sevashram chaps came down to break the seal and collect its handsome Contents.
I walked down to the Shop, collected the Rs 50 Note with my signature on it, and as per the terms of the Deal bought Rs 50 worth of sugar with it for Ishani...
Everybody Won!
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