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Page 155 - What connexion is there between medicine for the eyes and a pain in the stomach ?" The doctor replied, " I wish, in the first place, to make your eyes sound, for it is evident that you are unable to distinguish between black and white, otherwise you would never have eaten burnt bread.
Page 148 - This night I will give each of you a stick one cubit in length, and it will so happen that the stick of him who is the thief will become one inch longer than those of the rest.
Page 121 - I do not wish to send you anywhere, why are you making this unreasonable excuse ? " The scribe replied, " You are speaking the truth ; but when I write a letter for any person, then I am always sent for to read it ; for nobody else is able to read my hand-writing.
Page 82 - One day, in the summer season, a king and his son went a-hunting. When the air became very hot, then they placed each his cloak on the back of a certain jester. The king, having laughed, said, "Now, O jester, there is an ass's burden on thy back.
Page 148 - ... inch longer than those of the rest." Having thus spoken, the judge gave each a stick, and dismissed them. During the night, the thief being afraid, said to himself, " If I cut off one inch from my stick, in the morning it will be of the same length with the rest." Thus, having considered, he cut off an inch from his stick, and next day attended, along with the others. The judge, having looked at the sticks, thus discovered the thief.
Page 111 - The rich man, on hearing this, gave to the poor man one kauri. The poor man said, " Oh, sir ! why do you not bestow upon me a brother's share...
Page 98 - In a dark night a blind man, having taken a lamp in his hand, and a jar on his shoulder, was going along in the market. Somebody said to him, " O fool ! in thy eyes day and night are alike ; of what use is a lamp to thee ? " The blind man, having laughed, said,
Page 50 - There are four Moods : the Indicative, the Subjunctive, the Imperative, and the Infinitive. The...
Page 91 - They thus say, that in a certain house a tiger and a man saw a picture, in which the man was drawn as victorious, and the beast subdued. The man said to the tiger, " Dost thou see the bravery of the man, how he has overcome the tiger ? " The tiger gave answer, " The painter was a man : if a tiger had been the painter, then the drawing would not have been in this manner.