One night the Hodja looked into his well and saw there the reflection of the full moon.<>
“Oh no!” he exclaimed. “The moon has fallen from the sky and into my well!”<>
He ran into his house and returned with a hook attached to a rope.<>
He then threw the hook into the water and commenced to pull it up again, but it became stuck on the side of the well.<>
Frantically the Hodja tugged and pulled with all his might.<>
The hook suddenly came loose, and the Hodja fell over backwards, landing flat on his back.<>
Scarcely able to move, he looked up into the sky and saw the full moon above him.<>
“I may have injured myself in doing so,” he said with satisfaction, “but at least I got the moon back into the sky where it belongs.”<>
