TAKING BABAJAN TO TEA

 
One day a man approached Babajan and offered to take her for tea to a nearby teashop. Babajan stipulated, "Yes, I go with you to tea-shop, but I shall pay for the tea."

The man replied, "I have money with me in my pockets. You are a fakir. Where can you get money from?"

Babajan asked, "Where is the cash with you?" The man very egoistically jingled coins in his pocket which amounted to near about rupees thirty to forty. Babajan and the party wended their way towards a tea-shop. Tea was ordered and drunk by everybody.

When it came to paying at the counter, before coming out of the tea-shop, the man puts his hands in his pockets to find to his utter dismay that there was no money there. He appealingly told Babajan, "How is it? I haven't a pie [penny] in my pocket!"

Babajan said, "You just now jingled a good quantity of money."

He became crestfallen and came out with Babajan to the seat underneath the tree. On reaching the destination he discovered that the cash was there intact in his pocket.