The Clever Old LADY
One day, she becomes blind of all a sudden. She sat on her beautiful sofa and remembered her grandchild pulling her white hair and making fun of her furrowed face and toothless mouth. Now she could just smell the flowers in the Italian vase that she had kept two days ago, but couldn't see.
The old woman feared hiring a doctor as the town was full of fake doctors. Yet she decided to call in a doctor in one condition.
"Condition!" the doctor, whom she called in, said doubtfully, "What's it!"
Mrs. Brown replied " I'll pay a large amount if I'm cured, but nothing if not"
The doctor agreed and visited the house daily for treatment. The furniture in Mrs. Brown's lured him. He delayed the cure and began to take away an item of furniture every day he came there.
Although the old lady got her eyesight restored, she refused to pay the doctor. She just said, " I can't see well." The doctor was sure that she could see well. So he brought a court case.
The judge asked the lady, " Mrs. Brown, why are you not paying to the doctor?"
"Your Honor! My eyesight is not properly restored. I still cannot see all my furniture," the lady said to the judge.
The judge understood and gave a verdict in her favor. Mrs. Brown won the court case with her honesty and wit and got her eyesight restored as well.
MORAL --- To know when to be generous and when firm-- that is wisdom.
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