IT ONLY MADE THINGS WORSE
A husband said to his friend: “My wife doesn’t allow me to sleep. She is afraid of thieves and wakes me up if she hears the slightest noise and makes me get up to see if there are burglars in the house.” “You can easily get over that difficulty. Just explain to your wife; they work quietly and don’t disturb anybody.” “I have already done that, old man, but it only made things worse. Now she gets me up every night because she hears nothing.”
THE PRESCRIPTION ON THE DOOR
Once there lived a farmer. He had a wife and a lot of children. From early morning till late at night he worked on his field. His wife laboured about the house, the garden and the orchard. The children helped their parents as much as they could.
One day the farmer’s wife fell ill. The doctor was sent for. The doctor came to examine the patient. He felt her pulse, examined her throat, felt her heart and lungs, and diagnosed the case as flu. The doctor asked for a piece of paper to write the prescription on. But there wasn’t paper in the house, so the farmer went to his neighbour for some paper. But he was absent for a long time. The doctor waited for some time, but as he was short of time he took a piece of coal and wrote the prescription on the door.
When the farmer returned, the doctor was gone. As neither the farmer, nor his wife, nor their children could write and there was no one to copy out the prescription the farmer took the door off its hinges and carried it to the chemists. This way the farmer had the prescription made up and his wife took the medicine and recovered soon.
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