Birbal caught the thief..Short story for kids in English.

Birbal caught the thief..

Once a rich merchants  house was robbed .
The Merchant suspected that that the thief was one of his servants so he went to birbal and mentioned the incident.

Birbal went to his house and assembled all of his servants and asked that who stole the merchants things. everybody denied.

 Birbal thought for a moment, then he gave one stick of equal length to all the servants of The Merchant and told them that the stick of the real thief will be longer by 2 inches tomorrow..

he further instructed that all the servants should be present in the Merchant house again tomorrow with their sticks.

 all the servants  went to their homes and gathered again at the same place the next day .

Birbal asked them to show their sticks.  one of the servants and his  stuck shorter by 2 inches .

Birbal said this is the your thief ,merchant .

later the merchant asked him how did you catch the thief??

 Birbal said the thief had already cut his stick short by 2 inches in the night fearing that his stuck will be longer by 2 inches by the next morning...

Moral :  Birbal was very clever.