#102 April Fool's Day

Once upon a time on first day of April, a woodsman discovered a hoard of golden coins. Knowing well that his wife was a terrible chatterbox, he started thinking about the best way to keep his secret. He made same careful preparations, and then went off to fetch his wife.

“Look! Look!” he shouted out suddenly, as they passed beneath a tree, “there's a fish, a trout, my dear, growing on that branch.”

To his wife's amazement, he took down the fish, which he had out there himself. Then they went on to the river where he often went fishing. There, the woodsman pulled in his hook, and drew out a hare, which he also had placed there earlier. They went on again, and he pretended to stumble upon the hoard of golden coins. The wife was surprised to have discovered so many gold coins.

And so his wife, despite all the woodsman's pleas to keep the matter quiet, began to boast to their friends. The woodsman was ready for this problem and asked.

“A hoard of treasure in the woods? When exactly did this happen, dear?”

“You can't have forgotten!” insisted his silly wife. “It was when we found the trout growing in a tree and caught the hares in the river!”

Naturally, her friends assumed that she was making it all up, and they did not believe one word about the treasure. And so what she said was considered to be the first April Fools!

-FIN-

Read the Indonesian translation HERE

Author: Unknown

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