Retold from the Aesop's Fables by Brishti
Bandyopadhyay; Illustration by Shinod AP
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A prosperous money-lender or seth bought a house
located right next door to the house of a tanner. From
morning till evening the tanner converted hide into
leather by treating it with tannin. From day one the
money-lender was put off by the unpleasant smells of
the tannery.
So, he visited the tanner's house and offered to buy
his house.
"I would love to sell the house if you buy it seth,"
said the tanner. He had no intention of doing any such
thing but he liked to play pranks. "Give me a week or
so to wind up some things, will you?" The seth agreed
and went away.
A week later, the overpowering smell coming from the
tannery brought the seth to the tanner's doorstep
again. "I understand sir," said the tanner with
wide-eyed sympathy when the money-lender told him that
the smell had reduced his appetite largely. "But my
mother is visiting me this week. I can't sell the
house as long as she is around. Please wait for a
month, until she goes away."
The seth agreed with great reluctance. He began to
wait with bated breath for the guest's departure. In
the beginning he counted each day, impatiently waiting
for one to finish and the other to begin. After a
while though, he found he was no longer all that
interested in the month coming to an end. And when the
month did end, the seth did not go the tanner's house
to ask him to leave. He had simply forgotten about it.
He did not ask the tanner to leave when they met next,
either. You see, by then the seth had become
accustomed to the tan-yard's smell. "What have you
done to drive away that infernal smell?" he asked the
tanner. "Have you diluted the solution?"
The tanner smiled and nodded. He had been waiting for
the day the seth would get used to the smells from the
tannery and stop bothering him. That was why he had
asked the seth to wait in the first place.
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