Days of a month ingilizce hikayesi (nasrettin hoca)

In Ramazan, a special month for Moslems, the Hodja began it by putting a stone in a cup, to know which day it was. So, every morning he put a stone into the cup without knowing that one of his friends put a handful of stones in it, to play a trick on him.

A few days later a man asked the Hodja: “Hodja Effendi, how many days have passed since we started Ramazan?

The Hodja told him to wait for a minute, ran to his cup, counted the stones, came back and said:

- Up to today 45 days of Ramazan have passed.

- But Hodja, said the man. There are only 30 days in a month. How is it possible?

- Oh, be satisfied with that ?, said the Hodja.

- If you had counted the stones in the cup you would have seen, that it is the hundred and twentieth day of Ramazan.

Nasreddin Hodja