What Did Pekale Buy?

Some boyar sent Pekale to buy a cart. Pekale disappeared somewhere for a long time. Time passed, and he spent all the money. He returned without the cart, and the boyar asks him:

- Pekale, where is the cart?

- I ate it, master.

- Listen, you don't eat a cart. - Well, if you don't eat it, then I drank it.

- No, Pekale, you don't drink it either!

- If you don't eat it and you don't drink it, then it wasn't a cart.

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