The drum beater made the wood into a fine drum and then started playing

There lived a wealthy man named Mohan. He was the village head. He loved and helped his people in their work. There lived a barber named Ram. He was the only barber to shave the beard and trim the hair of the village head. Both of them sat beside a lake and talked for long hours. They used to share their secrets. The village head did not allow his guards to hear them. Everyday they sat discussed for long hours.

One day, when there was no one beside them, the head man told Mohan a secret. He told him that two small horns were growing on his head. He took a promise from ram that he would not reveal it to anyone.  

Years rolled on and Ram kept the news as secret and did not leak it to anyone. The village head gave many presents to him to keep the news as secret. He enjoyed all the privileges given by the head man. One day he could not it anymore.  He thought that he would burst out near someone. He was silent for a long time and could not keep it.

On his way home from the village, there was an old tree and here he revealed the secret. He said, `the head man had got two small horns on his head-ha-ha-ha.’

He burst out into laughter and laughed for a long time and then returned home. He made sure that he was from the village and nobody could hear him.

The next morning one of the wood-cutters went to the forest. He went there to the tree where Ram had revealed the secret. He thought that a drum beater would love the wood from this tree. So he cut it.

The wood –cutter sold the wood to the drum beater. The drum beater took it happily and then started making it.

The drum beater made the wood into a fine drum and then started playing on it. It played very melodiously and musically.

One day, the drum beater came to the middle of the village and played it. The people ere deeply moved by it. Suddenly they heard, `our village head man has two small horns on his head.’

Ha-ha-ha!

All the villagers started murmuring about it. They thought, `Oh God! Our head man has horns,’ said one. The other laughed.

The news went everywhere in the village and family to the village head man. The village headman asked his guards to bring the drum beater. When the drum beater came, he asked, `What is your drum talking? How does it know all this? Answer at once,’ he said.

The poor drum beater said that he did not do anything and told that e had bought it from a wood-cutter. The village head man said, `Bring the wood-cutter to me.’

The guards brought the wood cutter to him. He said, `I do not know anything, sir. I just cut the wood from the tree and sold it to the drum beater. This is what had happened actually.’

The village head man now remembered Ram and questioned him, `Where did you reveal the secret?’ he answered that he revealed near the tree unable to keep it in his heart.

Finally it was found that tree is magical and it as repeated the words. The head man was very generous and pardoned of them.