Once a young man went to town and bought a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were too long. He went downstairs, where his mother and two sisters were washing up in the kitchen. "These new trousers need
shortening by five centimeters," he said. They were busy and none of them said anything. When his mother finished washing up, she made the trousers shorter by five centimeters and didn’t say anything to her daughters. After supper the elder sister remembered her brother’s request. She shortened the trousers by five centimeters and said nothing to
anybody. The younger sister also went upstairs and took five centimeters off the legs of the new trousers. You can imagine the boy’s face when he put the trousers on the next morning.
A pair of trousers