Stories of Birbal
A little lesser and a little more
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One day Birbal's five-year old daughter
accompanied him to the Royal Court. When Akbar saw her, it just came to his mind
that he should test her wits whether she had the same type of wits as her father
had.
He started talking to her. "Do you know
Persian, O little girl?" "A little lesser and a little more, Sir"
The girl replied. Birbal smiled on her reply, but Akbar could not understand it,
so he asked Birbal to explain this.
Birbal said, "She knows Persian a little
more than those who do not know Persian, and knows a little lesser than those
who know Persian well."
Akbar understood, that she had the same wits as
her father.
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