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Once a man went to a shop and bought a pair of trousers. When he came home, he put the trousers on. Then he saw that they were too long for him.
So he went to his wife and said: “Please make my trousers shorter, they are too long for me,
I cannot put them on.”
But the wife said: "I have no time now. I must wash the plates. It is late now, I shall do it tomorrow."
The man went to his daughter and asked her: "Can you make my trousers shorter? I cannot put them on."
"No, I cannot," said the daughter. "I must do my lessons now. I shall do it tomorrow".
The man went to his sister, but she could not help him. She said: "I must make my dress now. I shall do it tomorrow".
So the man went to bed and left his new trousers on a chair near his bed. His wife washed all the plates, came into the room, took the trousers, made them shorter and put them back on the chair.
When his daughter did her lessons, she came into his room, took the trousers and made them shorter. Late in the evening his sister came too and made the trousers shorter.
The man got up at 7 o'clock in the morning. His wife told him, "I have made your trousers shorter; you can put them on". But when the man put them on, he saw that they were too short for him and he could not wear them.
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A STRANGE PICTURE
A rich American went to Paris and bought a very strange picture painted by a fashionable modern artist. The American thought the picture was very fine because he had paid a lot of money for it. But when he came to his hotel and wanted to hang the picture up on the wall, he could not tell which was the top and which the bottom of the picture. The American turned the picture this way and that, but still could not decide which was the top and which was the bottom.
So he thought of a plan. He hung the painting in the dining-room and invited the artist to dinner. When the artist came, the American said nothing to him about the picture. When the artist began to eat his soup, he looked at the picture many times. When he began to eat his fish, he put on his glasses and looked at the picture again. Before he began to eat his fruit, he got up and walked over to the picture to look at it more closely. At last when they began to drink their coffee, he understood that the picture was upside down.
"Why, my friend", he said," my picture is hung upside down".
"Oh, is it?" said the American. "Why didn't you tell me so at once?"
"Well, you see, I was not sure myself at first", said the artist.
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