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THE WAY OF LIFE
are you seeing? Your drama is going on, on the stage, People are laughing at you. Get up. Let us go. We should not remain in this village.” The tailor went home with his wife. He put all his belongings in a bullock-cart and got ready to leave the village. The people came to know of it. People began to whisper in each other's ears that the tailor was getting ready to leave the village. When the whisperings were going on, the actor felt that something had happened surely. So, addressing the villageheadmen he said, "Brothers, why have you come here ? Have you come here to see the drama or to talk among yourselves ?"
The headman said to him, "You enacted this drama about the tailor. Our tailor has been displeased and is getting ready to leave the village."
“Let him go away! We are actors. We can enact any drama”.
"But, you see, if the tailor goes away now, we will be put to a lot of inconvenience and trouble. During this season about twenty-five marriages will have to take place and that tailor has to stitch clothes for all these marriages."
“Now, what is to be done ? Is the tailor to be brought back?”
"Yes, the tailor must be brought back. We cannot allow him to go now. We will all go now. We will all go and tell him not to leave the village.” Some four or five headmen of the village, taking some others with them went to the tailor's house. The tailor and his wife were sitting in the bullock-cart along with their belongings and were about to start. The headman said to the tailor, "Brother, do not be angry. Please do not go away. If you go away we will be put to a lot of trouble.”
"No. I am determined to go away. You go and see that drama which is being enacted to make fun of me; you may laugh as much as you like. I will not remain in this village." Though the headmen requested him not to go away, he did not care for their request. The bullock-cart moved away slowly. The headmen came back to the actor and said, "The tailor is going away. We tried our best to stop him; but he did not care for our request." The actor said, "If you want, I will go and bring back that tailor, I can do that. Tell me in which direction
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