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 can¬not 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 mu trousers shorter? I cannot put them on." "No, I cannot," said the daughetr. "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 shell 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 trous¬ers, made them shorter and put them back on the chair. When his daugh¬ter did her lessons, she came into his room, took the trousers and ma¬de 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 where the man put them on, he saw that they were too short for him and he could not wear them.