Hi, THE OLD WOMAN AND THE PHYSICIAN An old woman who had lost the sight of her eyes went to a physician. "Cure my blindness," the old woman said,"and I will pay you well.but if you can not cure my eyes,I will pay you nothing." The physician agreed and he came to her house each week and applied some worthless salve to her eyes.But each time he quietly carried a piece of furniture away with him.This went o until he had stolen what she had in her house. Then the physician gave her a salve that cured her,and the old woman could see again. Now that she had got her sight,she saw that her house was bare,and therefoe she paid him nothing. The physician took her to court. The old woman stood before the judge and said , "This man speaks the truth. I did agree to pay him well if he cured my eyes and he agreed that I pay him nothing if he could not do that.Now he says that i am cured. But, I say I am still bilind, for when I lost the sight of my eyes,my house was filled with furniture,but now I am not able to see any of it. The judge voted in favour of the old woman, saying,"Those who are so ready to take what is not their own must be prepared to lose what is theirs." lol regards
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