Chinese Fairy Tales : Forty Stories Told By Almond-Eyed Folk
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" The saying goes," said Pearl, " that ' an imaginary disease may be cured by a quack medicine, but a real disease no medicine can cure.' " She then asked the burly man for his story and he narrated one concerning 136 The Strayed Arrow. MISAPPLIED WIT. A YOUNG literary graduate was on his way home from the city-school where he taught. The trustee had paid him ten ounces of silver, and he was hasten- ing to spend New Year with his wife and children in his native village. On the road he met a wom...an carrying a sleeping infant, and crying bitterly. He inquired the cause of her distress, and when he learned that her husband had been imprisoned for a debt of ten ounces of silver, he gave her all he had, and went on his way with an empty stomacher. Soon after his arrival at his own house, his wife told him of accumulated market-bills that she had promised to pay on his return, and of household requirements that he must provide for. He was therefore obliged to confess to her that he had given away all that was due on his salary.
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