Gabrovo Anecdotes [antikvár]

FUNNY HA-HA AND FUNNY PECULIARHave you ever met anyone who enjoys being laughed at? I bet you have not.But there is an exception.The Gabrovonian enjoys making others laugh and even laughs at himself. He niakes up jokes at his ovvn expense.This is one curious feature that seems to make him even funier.Though he is notoriously thrifty, his fin-gers remain perfectly steady as he counts oflf the pennies to cover the cost of all those anec-dotes about him being printed in different lan-guages and spread throughout the vvorld.That is yet another curious fact.It seems though it would not be quite wrong to see behind it another little scheme to make somé money. Those aneedotes spread his fame throughout the world. Nations are curious just like women and children Why not have a look into the shop of that merchant everybody seems to be talking about? people in various parts of the world vvill probably say. There inight be a bargain for us toof One vvill buy a penny s worth another twice as much and there s a fortune for you. Cu-riousity vvill pay for the aneedotes and inay even produce a little extra to stow avvay.Where was he born and hovv did he grovv up the way he is, that strange Bulgárián type