One day Starchik came to Poltava, sat down in Zeleny Gai, not far from the Assumption Cathedral, and began shouting: - I sell wisdom; One Wisdom is a penny, for a nickel - two! So the rich man came up...

One old woman cried all the time. The reason was that her eldest daughter married an umbrella seller, and her youngest daughter married a noodle seller. When the old woman saw that the weather was goo...