Now, Listen!..
A SHOEMAKER IN HEAVEN
Once upon a time there was a clean-handed shoemaker and his wife.
One day the shoemaker died
and went to heaven.
Saint Peter wouldn't let him in:
"God went for a walk. Take a sit on this stool and wait!"
The shoemaker is sitting, getting bored.
No one's coming.
Suddenly he looks down and sees -
a thief is stealing linen from his wife!
The shoemaker got angry and - bang!
- hit him with the stool!
Suddenly God comes back.
The shoemaker felt ashamed and hid.
God looks around: "Where's my stool?"
The shoemaker comes out:
"Lord, forgive me!
A thief was stealing my woman's stuff
and I got him with the stool!"
"Funny you are, shoemaker!
We ain't gonna have no furniture left here this way!
Why don't you go back and live some more!"
And they lived happily ever after.