Lost Money

kha-yuma malla Nasraden gu-tuyra balbuyeva. balbuyeva bekkareva. kat-nashe tilun merrun katu mu vadet lakhkha? merre hammen ana zuyze tumren lakhkha. adi kmat tavvuyen bare lit. merre magar letva mutta nishanka kat-machkhetvalun? merre e-danet ana zuyze muttili lakhkha iva kha-dana ayva kliteva ullul m-rishan. ina adiyya liten e-ayvada kheshtela len-bedda ikena zuyze.

One day mullah Nasradin was searching in the mountains. He was searching and getting cold. When people came and said to him ‘What are you doing here?’ He said ‘Believe me, I have buried coins here. Now, however much I search for them, they are not here (to be found).’ He (= one of them) said ‘Didn’t you put down a sign so you could find it?’ He said ‘When I put the money here, there was a cloud, which was standing over our head. But now it is not here, the cloud has gone and I do not know where the money is.’