Mistaken : Humorous short story

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Mistaken

One night, two mischievous boys thieved two bags full apples from their neighbour's garden. When they finished their job, the owner of that garden suspected about their operation in the darkness of the garden. He came out of his room and chased after them with a torch light and a stick. When he saw the thieves climbed his boundary wall, then jumped and vanished, he started shouting, "Thief!" "Thief!" Soon other houses of the locality became animated at the middle of the night hearing that shouting.

Those boys ran and came near the church of that town. This place was not much populated like other parts of the town. There was a graveyard beside the church. One of the boys said, "Let's go inside the graveyard and divide these apples into two portion for us."

"It's a good idea. Nobody will come there." The other boy said.

So they entered into the graveyard. While crossing over the fence, two apples from their bags fell on the ground outside the graveyard. But they let them go. Because they had enough apples in their bags to count. They decided to pick them up later.

They sat upon a grave stone nearest from the fence and started to count those fruits loudly.

In the meantime a drunk man was returning home by the lane between the church and the graveyard. He heard two voices coming from the graveyard. He became curious about it and went near the fence. He couldn't see anything inside for the bushes of the graveyard boundary and it was too dark to see anything. He just heard two voices busy to divide something, "This is yours and this is mine", "This is yours and this is mine".

After hearing these, his intoxication vanished instantly. He ran to the church and started banging the door of father, " Father ! wake up ! Father !"

Father woke up and opened the door, "What happened? Why are you making noise at the middle of the night?"

"Father, come with me! I heard Holy God and Satan are dividing the souls into the graveyard!" The man was impatient.

The man was familiar to father. Father knew that, he was not a liar. Something really happened. He went with that man to the fence of graveyard. When they reached there, the boys were near the end of their job. Father also heard the counting, "This is yours and this is mine." He became spellbound. Suddenly he became anxious when he heard the next conversation.

The boys finished their counting and one of them told, "What about those two, outside the fence?"

Father started running inside the church along with that drunk man, shouting, "Oh God! Please let us go! We are still alive!"
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