Outwitting A Miser

"Is my friend, Chowdhary Bhim Singh, at home!?" asked a tired traveller named Ram Singh.

"Yes, sahib," said the servant. "He is about to have his lunch."

"And what is he going to eat?"

"Spinach with butter and rotis, followed by carrot halwa."

"Bhim Singh was always a miser, but today he'll have tp offer me lunch!" Ram Singh smiled to himself.

But Bhim Singh had seen his friend from the window. "Quick! Hide the food!" he said to his wife. "Ram Singh is coming!"

"You can turn away a guest!" she protested.

"Do as I say!" snarled her husband.

Five minutes later, he opened the door,saying, "Come in, my friend. What a pity we've just finished lunch."

"Lair!" thought Ram Singh. "HE must have hidden the food!" He sat down and said, "I would have reached earlier, but I had to kill a snake on the way."

"A snake! What snake?" gasped Bhim Singh.

"It was green like the spinach you were going to ear and redlike the carror halwa!" grinned Ram Singh.

"Well done, bhai sahib!" laughed the Chowdhary's wife, while he looked embarrassed. "I'll just save serve the food."