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Monday, December 17, 2001

T0185. Revenge on the Bedbugs

Nasruddin's house burns down, and Nasruddin just laughs. "I got away with my life at least," he says, "but the bedbugs didn't."

Notes: See proverb in Moseley (a Birbal story): "When the house burns down, that's revenge on the bedbugs."