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One
day clever Pejo went to the Prilep market and decided to have a shave,
so he entered a barber's shop. Because everyone knew him as a joker, the
barber decided to have a joke with him so he sat him on a chair opposite
the sun, instead of putting shaving cream on his face, he started to wet
his beard with saliva.
The barber started to shave Pejo until Pejo's eyes started
watering from the pain. Pejo bagged the barber to let him go un-shaved
and paid him.
When Pejo walked out from the barber's shop, laughter
spread throughout the people. The barber too couldn't stop laughing because
he outsmarted this clever man from Mariovo.
Pejo got the joke played on him and said to himself:
"I'll get you your malicious man, I will see you with
a big needle and you wouldn't even feel it". - and went to another barber
to complete his shave.
After one year from the above event, Pejo got his lopping
knife and went by the barber's shop where he went for a shave the previous
year. Pejo asked for a job, to lop the vineyard of the barber and for a
cheap price. The barber thought he will outsmart Pejo again so he agreed
to the deal. He took him to the vineyard, he gave him brandy, lunch and
even a bit of wine. The barber left him to get on with his work, not forgetting
to order him to take the vine-twings to the end of the vineyard after he'll
finish his work.
When the barber left, Pejo started working but instead
of lopping the vine-twings he pulled all of them out from the root and
took them to the end of the vineyard as he was told. After lunch he went
to collect his money from the barber.
The barber happy that Pejo lopped his vineyard for a
cheap price, gave him a few more drinks and before he left he asked:
-Did you do a good job Pejo?
-Yes, I did a very good job sir! - answered proudly -
you won't have to lop it again.
-Did you clean it well Pejo? - again asked the barber
-A, aha! - not even a vine-log was left in the soil -
answered Pejo.
-Are the vine-twings weeping my friend?
-Not does it only weep but when you go there and see
what a good job I've done you will be weeping too.
-And that my friend is a pay back for last years joke
- explained Pejo and went back to Mariovo.
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