The Old Woman And The Physician
An one woman having lost the use of her eyes, called a doctor to heal them. She made a bargain with him in the presence of witnesses, that if he could cure her blindness, he world get a sum of money. However, if her blindness continued, she would give him nothing.
This agreement being made, the doctor, day after day, applied medicine to the eyes and on every visit he took something away, stealing all her property little by little.
When he stole all she had, he healed her and demanded the promised payment. When the old women gained her sight and say none of her goods in her house, refused to give him anything. The doctor insisted on his claim and she still refused. He summoned her before the judge.
The old women, standing up in the court, argued, "This man here speaks the truth in what he says. I did promise to give him sum of money if i should recover my sight. However, if I continued to be blind, I was to give him nothing. Now he says that I am healed.
I on the contrary think that i am still blind because when i lost the use of my eyes, i saw many valuable things in my house, but now, though he swears I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it".
Moral: he who plays a trick must be prepared to take a joke.
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