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The Donkey Who Learned to Read

Nasreddin Hodja

The Donkey Who Learned to Read

Nasreddin Hodja promises the mighty Timur that he can teach a donkey to read. With a big book and a sack of barley, he finds a very clever way to keep his promise.

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Chapter 1: A Gift for Timur

Long ago, in the town of Akşehir, there lived a clever man called Nasreddin Hodja. One day the mighty ruler Timur came to the town, and someone gave him a fine grey donkey as a present. Timur looked at it and grunted, but the Hodja smiled. “What a wonderful donkey!” he said.

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Chapters in this story

  1. 1.A Gift for Timur
  2. 2.A Very Strange School
  3. 3.Barley Between the Pages
  4. 4.The Big Day
  5. 5.How a Donkey Reads

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