Tamerlane forbids carrying a knife. Soldier catches Nasruddin with large knife. "Don't you know that is not allowed?" "It's for peeling apples," says Nasruddin. "But it's so big!" "I like to eat big apples!"
Notes: In other versions, the knife is for scratching out mistakes in books or written work. For example, in Barnham, Nasruddin is a schoolboy carrying a yataghan sword for marking out mistakes in his schoolbook. "I make very big mistakes!" he says.
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