The tiger’s whisker

One day a young woman went to visit a wise man seeking his help. She told him that her husband had been away in wars for three years. She told him that altough he had come back safely, he was not happy. Even he didn’t speak to her in the evenings and refused the food she prepared for him. In other words, he was gruff and moody and difficult to talk to. “What can I do to make him as happy as he was before he left?” “I can make you option to help your husband, but first you must bring me the whisker of a living tiger, “said the old man. “How can I do that?” asked the young woman. “You will find a way, “replied the old man. Then, the young woman went away and thought about this for a long time. One night she got out of her bed and went up to the mountain where the tiger lived. She took a bowl of food and went as close as she could to the tiger’s cave and left it for him to eat. The following night, she got closer and closer to the tiger. The tiger ate the food she offered. A week or two later, he let her stroke his furand after a few more days, the young woman was close enough to touch his mouth. Quickly, she pulled a whisker from the tiger’s head. She apologized to the tiger and took the whisker carefully in her hand to the wise man. “Look,”she cried out to the wise man. “I have the whisker from a living tiger. Now, you can make me my potion for my husband.”