On one night, some thieves entered Tenali Raman's house and were hiding in the back yard of his house. They were only waiting for the right time, to get in and rob. Raman came to know that and so collected all the money.
Then, he called his wife and said in a voice loud enough for the thieves to hear, “There are more incidence of robbery taking place in this city. So, we must keep all gold inside the well in our garden.”
Then he filled up a big box with some heavy unwanted things.
They dropped the box to the well in the garden.
The thieves, who were carefully obserbing all this, heard this.
So, they decided not to enter inside the house, one of them got into the well, and found that the water was very deep.
They realised that, the box can be easily taken out, only after taking out the water. So, the thieves spent the entire night to draw water from the well.
Since, all the water drawn from the well was poured into the garden, all the plants in the garden got irrigated. The water level in the well never went down to the extent they expected.
When the day was about to dawn, Raman said loudly, “The whole garden has been well irrigated and you may stop now, drawing further water.”
On hearing these words, the thieves ran away.
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