ΑΛΛΑΞΕ Ο ΜΑΝΩΛΙΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΒΑΛΕ ΤΑ ΡΟΥΧΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΛΛΙΩΣ

Manolios changed and put on his clothes differently

When one pretends that something has changed

In the years of Otto, the first king of Greece, there was a well-known rag type: Manolis Batinos.

There was no one in Athens who did not know him, but also did not like him.

The inhabitants often gave him no trousers or any jacket, but he refused to take them, because he was not a beggar.

He considered himself a poet, orator and philosopher. He was standing in a square and was saying that it was coming down to him.

Once upon a time, Ioannis Kolettis, the first prime minister of Greece, happened to pass through there.

Manolis Batinos approached him and asked him if he had the right to speak in Parliament.

Kolettis told him that he would gladly give him permission if he threw the old clothes he was wearing over him and put on other ones.

The next day Manolis appeared in the square in the same clothes, but he had turned them upside down and was wearing the inside out.

He failed to enter Parliament. He remained in the main square and gave the following speech to the passers-by: