Chapter 3 - THIEF OF SHROUDS

BY RABIA ANSARI

In a village there lived a man who used to steal the shrouds (shroud is basically a large piece of cloth sheet used to wrap the corpse /dead body before burial) of the buried corpse .People knew the thief but could do nothing other than imprecating him privately as people know that he had the support of local police as they were there sleeping partner in this business.

One day the thief was not feeling well and he felt like I m dying so he called his son at the end of his life and asked him

"Dear son , I m at the end of my life and I need you to do something for me so that people remember me in good books after my death"

After the death of his father the son unwillingly had to carry the same business as his father was doing remembering the last wish of his father .so the son changed the process of stealing and selling the shrouds .

His father used to steal the shrouds and rebury the corpse and on the other hand his son left the body out of the grave after stealing the shrouds.

Now whenever the people found the body of their relative out of the graves they would exclaims with horror "hell with him ,at least his father was a gentle and a little kind hearted that he did not let the body out of grave"

The son was very happy about that now his father is remembered in good taste but as it was very depressing that his own position was at stake .

After when he was at his end of life so also do the same as his father does. He called his son and asked him the same

"dear son , I m at the end of my life and I need you to do something for me so that people remember me in good books after my death"

So the son thought to do something worse than his father and grand father.

As he want to keep the last wish of his father in his mind, he also do the same business and planned to do something worse . and he followed the footsteps of his father . in addition he just steal the shrouds and keep the body out of grave and and chopped the ear and nose of that body .and whenever the people see that body they just considered his father much better than him . the people exclaimed that "at least his father does not damaged the body"