The Woman and Her Drunken Husband
Long ago a clever woman lived in a windy old town. Every night her husband drank too much wine and got drunk. When he got drunk, his eyes closed and he slept deeply. The woman made a clever plan to change this bad habit.
One night she carried the sleeping man to a dark tomb. In the morning the man saw cold dark stones around him. He thought he was dead and waited in great fear. A little later the woman came in black clothes. She changed her voice and said, "I feed the dead."
The man sat up quickly and looked at her carefully. "Give me no food, only something to drink!" he shouted. When the woman heard these words, she shook her head sadly. Then she understood that her husband would never change. She opened the cloth on her face and showed herself.
"Even in the grave you only think about wine," she said. The man saw his mistake but kept his old habit. Even this clever plan could not save the man. Bad habits sit very deep inside people. A leopard never changes its spots.