Bunwas and the Cheater

Hello, everyone.

    Today is my blog’s birthday. It was exactly one year ago that I started my blog. I cannot say that I have grown much but I am certainly very grateful to all of you who have supported me and read my stories. I have very much enjoyed writing for you all. Although I had slackened my pace due to circumstances I promise I will try to write more and more stories for you to enjoy.

    However, I am appealing to you to write a comment when you read my story. It is indeed very important for me to know how you feel about them and whether you like the characters in my stories. Nothing is more delightful for a writer then when a fan tries to reach out and give his or her opinion. I know I am writing for the children but I also know that the mothers must be reading them as well.

    Once again thank you so much everyone.

    To celebrate my blog’s birthday I am going to tell you another one of Bunwas stories.

Bunwas and the Cheater

    Once there was an old woman who lived by herself. She did not have anybody and she was all alone in this world. One day she decided to go for a pilgrimage but the problem was who could she leave her money and gold with. There was a neighbour she thought she could trust. So she put all her savings and her gold in a small sack. This sack she stitched with very fine stitches so that nobody could undo it. Then she gave this sack to her neighbour and went away on a pilgrimage.

    As you all know in olden days there were no cars and people used to walk or rode in horse carts or donkey carts or something like that. It also took a very long time. It took months to go and come back.

    So this old woman went on a pilgrimage and came back after many months. Now as soon as she came she went to the neighbour the next day and demanded to have her sack of her money and gold. The neighbour gave her the sack without another word. The old woman took her sack and went home. She sat on her bed and opened it but what she saw turned her blood cold. There were just stones and pebbles there instead of her treasures. She immediately went to her neighbour and showed him the sack and demanded to know what happened to her money and her gold. The neighbour denied all knowledge and said he had returned her sack just as she had given it to him. The old woman was at the end of her tether. She did not know what to do. Without her money how was she going to survive? She felt like crying. Then she remembered Bunwas. At once she got up and took the sack and went to him.

    Once there she told him the whole story. Bunwas thought for a while and then he told her to leave the sack with him and go not to worry about it anymore. He assured her he would think about something.

    The next morning he took a sharp razor and made a large tear in his bed sheet and went away. After a while his servant came and started his work. When he saw the tear in the bed sheet he panicked. He thought he had made that tear accidently without knowing it. He immediately removed the bed sheet and took it to a tailor and told him to mend it in such a way that it would not be detected at all. The tailor agreed and told him it would be ready by noon and the servant went away. At noon he brought the bed sheet and spread it on the bed. The tear was nowhere to be seen.

    Bunwas returned to his house at noon to have his lunch as was his habit. Whilst the servant was busy preparing to serve his master Bunwas went straight away to the bedroom and started searching for the tear he had made. To his surprise there was no tear to be seen. He called his servant and asked him about it. The servant got scared but when Bunwas told him that it was he who had made that tear he relaxed. Then he asked him where he had gotten it mended. The servant gave the name of the tailor and Bunwas went to him at once taking the sack with him.

    Once there Bunwas showed the tailor the sack and asked him if a man had brought it to him for mending. The tailor at once recognized the sack and said that a man had certainly brought it to him for mending but the surprising thing was that he had wanted rocks and pebbles to be sewn in it. Now Bunwas was sure it was the neighbour of the old woman.

    Bunwas took the sack and went to the old woman and explained everything and then they both went to the neighbour. At first he denied anything to do with the theft of the money and the gold but when Bunwas threatened to take him to the king he confessed and returned everything to the old woman.

    The old woman was very grateful to Bunwas and tried to reward him but he refused to take it saying it was reward enough that the old woman had got her precious things back.