Please pardon us pious ghost,

mound! “Please pardon us pious ghost, it was a mistake, it will never happen again.”

Centi was happy to hear their pleadings, “Ok forget it, who are you by the way?” he asked  - “We are seven thieves. You speak from beneath the earth, who are you? You are no less great”.

I am a human, being here, here I am, where are you heading for?

Meantime, they were looking for centi all around, the young thief discovered centi “a ten centimetre  with a five centimetre axe! All the thieves started laughing together, “He, Ha, Ha He, Hee, Hee”. They were rolling on the ground laughing at the sight of centi. with great efforts, they controlled themselves, “let us not waste time, move towards the black smith’s home”.

“ Which black smith?” centi was intrigued!

“You are ten centimetre, across the river, the twenty centimetre black smith, who had promised to give us seven and a half thin digging bars for entering houses.But he is not delivering for days. We want to teach a lesson to this old man centi realised, it was the same black smith who is his friend!

“Friends, he is my friend do not go to his house. There is a witch in his house who will suck all your blood if you enter his house. Rather if you want to marry the princess, let us go to king palace.”

-“Oh, that will be great, what a news, what a news! Son in law of a king! Money, property and position! But to go to the palace we have to go across, the furious thirteen river!”

“You had been going there a few minutes ago, what is the problem now?”

“You won’t understand, we are going to steal but no one pays to become kings son in law!”

“Ok, I hae one penny, Use it” The thieves were happy to see the penny.

They reached the river and shouted, “Hi, Boatman, please take us across the river, we have a penny.

The boatman took them across. But the thieves managed to steal the penny from the boatman. Centi having heard that took a stubborn stand, “Please return the penny to the good boatman”. But the thieves were violent, “Not only the penny, you will demand, we give him seven pots of pure ghee as well! Never done my friend.”Centi had nothing more to say. He kept quiet. They moved towards the palace. 

Centi pulled the big bell and called out, “Oh, my majesty, please come out, you have no time to relax on your very comfortable bed.People do not pay the boat man having used his services, what sort of king are you?” 

Having heard this, the thives were trembling. “ Who did not pay the boat man?” The king  come out and thundered “ who ever are the culprit hang them till death.” The seven and a half thieves were hanged, “But who were those ?” the king enquired- “ the seven thieves my majesty.” – “ What ? , One of them was supposed to marry my blind daughter”-“ Yes, your majesty, I brought them precisely for that reason , but they had to die for their own folly. Now please give me my father.” “-you dirty dirt always crying for something or the other. Put him also on the hang man’s rope!”