Short story 2

A long time ago, the country barber, Ussin, decided to move to his relatives abroad. And he agreed with his friend, shoemaker Marin, that if he was better in the new place, he would send him a picture of which he would be full or rather upright, but if he was bad, he would be lying on the snake. In about two months, Marin really received a letter with a picture. And to her, Ussin - grinning and upright, full-grown ... Marin boasted too much with the picture, in front of his acquaintances and friends in the village. But after about a month or two, the shoemaker Marin had another picture that his friend Ussin had been lying on his eyes. And on the back of the picture was the following inscription: "I am very well, my friend, I lie all day." And he did not call his friend again ...