Long, long ago there was a clever man called Tenali Ramakrishna. He was minister to great king called Krishna Raya. Once in that city there were lots of problems due to ras They were eating all sorts of books and papers. They also used to make holes in wooden shelves and also eat rice. Sometimes they even nibbled the ears of little clever girls Everybody knows that Cats Kill rats. But there were so many rats in the city but very lew cats. So the king asked every house in the city to grow cals. But cats need milk o drink, Most of the houses did not have cows. So the king gave cows to every house and asked them to grow them too. All people were happy and used to give cats lot of milk to drink.
Tenali Ramakrishna was a clever man. He decided not to give milk to cat. So the first day he boiled the milk and poured it in a pan. He gave the piping hot milk to the cat. The cat, which was hungry came and sipped the milk from the pan. Since the milk was hot it burnt its mouth. The cat ran away, The next day Tenali Ramakrishna did the same thing After a few days he stopped giving milk to the cat and started drinking it himself.Wenali Ramakrishna's cat was hungry and all other cats were fat and happy. One day the king wanted to see all the cats given by hiny and give prize to the fat cat He was very angry with Tenali Ramakrishna for not growing his cat properly. Then Tenali Ramakrishna told the king that he was not lucky since his cat did not drink any milk. The king wanted to put Tenali Ramakrishna in jail for telling a lie and wanted him to prove what he said.
Then Tenali Ramakrishna brought the pan of milk and his cat. The cat on seeing the milk ran away le thought that it was being given again hot milhe ateing the mill Ramakrishna and let him get away. The clever Tenali Ramakrishna lived happily forever drinking lots and lots of milk.