"Of course it has, only, you know——"
The doctor said consolingly:
"Your face is such, dear sir, that you may just as well put your trousers on it."
So it remained for the rest of his life. There is no moral here.
[1] "Love a Mingrelian hut."—Trans.
[2] The Little Russians speak a dialect of the language in which the Russian sound for "y" is pronounced "oo."
[THE LIBERAL]
There once lived a nobleman who liked to back up his statements by quoting history. Whenever he wanted to tell a lie, he went to a likely man and gave him the order:
"Egorka,[1] go and find me facts from history to prove that such-and-such a thing does not repeat itself, and vice versa."