One day, a horseman, riding through a village, came alongside an old man who was plowing, stopped his horse and greeted the old man:
- Yes, do good things to you!
- Yes, see good things for you! - answered the plowman,
- Eh, old man, you probably couldn’t get up in the morning? “I got up in the morning, but there’s no use.”
- How's your grade two? - asked the rider.
“My two became a three,” answered the old man.
-What is your look?
- My gaze became closer.
What did these mysterious questions and answers mean? Here's what.
What the rider said: “Old man, you probably didn’t manage to get up in the morning,” meant: “If you had gotten married in time, your sons would be plowing now.”
“I got married at the right time, but my sons died,” that’s what the plowman’s answer means.
“Are you standing strong on your feet?”—that’s what the rider’s question meant: “How’s your deuce?”
“I began to lean on my nose and therefore my deuce became a three,” - this is how the old man’s answer should be understood.
Asking, “What is your gaze?”, the rider wanted to know whether the old man’s vision had weakened.
The old man’s answer: “My gaze has become close” meant: “my vision has weakened and therefore I see the world poorly.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru