Slavi's Joke: All Time Best Player

Society | August 15, 2003, Friday // 00:00

Picture a cemetery. A pitch-dark night, a crow is cawing, a jackal is wailing. The shadows of the trees are drawing dark paintings that would make even the wise owl shake with fear.

And there, in the middle of that cemetery, a group of gypsy treasure-hunters, led by the brigade-leader Ilyaz Berberov, dubbed the Little Barber.

The group of six, armed with spades and metal indicators, was rummaging about the cemetery after the local gravedigger Toncho Syselov - in exchange of a percentage from the profit - gave a sign that a rich gypsy man has died.

For over two hours the group has been roaming through the cemetery and were on the point of getting desperate when all of a sudden they came across the "luxury" tomb.

They went inside and were amazed. The entire tomb was built of brocatelle, the ceiling was fortified by 12 sculptures of young women in silk pleated dresses.

And there in the middle of the tomb the treasure-hunters noticed three huge stone sarcophagi. The treasure-hunters lighted up the middle sarcophagus and read the inscription: " Here rests Purko Sandzheto- all time best gambler of "Either here or there!" (the Bulgarian equivalent of Cups and Balls).

An inscription on the two near-by sarcophagi read: "Either here or there!"

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