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72. A BURGLAR
A burglar once managed to reach a certain heavily guarded palace in the darkness of the night and chose a particularly difficult wall to make a hole in. He succeeded in gaining an entrance into the palace and also in getting away with a lot of valuables. He was quite pleased with his own skill. The next morning he had ? luxurious bath, put on clean and respectable clothes and went out to know what people had to say about the burglary. He also was keen on knowing whether it would be possible for him to repeat the performance one of these days, rather nights,
As he went to the palace, he saw people gathered there. They were all admiring the burglary and the skill of the burglar with which he climbed the well guarded walls. They particularly noticed the narrow hole that he had made in the wall and every one wondered how any one could have scraped through it inside the palace and also outside it with all the booty he had collected. The burglar was very much pleased not only with his skill but with his own trim figure. He kept on looking at his own body and at the hole in the wall. With supreme pleasure he patted his own belly. The clever detectives of the king that very minute apprehended him. The king punished him heavily for his crime.
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