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PAGE PAGE 1 无所不知医生   Once upon a time there was a poor farmer named Crab who drove a cord of wood into town with his two oxen and sold the wood to a doctor for two talers. When the farmer went inside to get his money, the doctor was just about to sit down to dinner, and the farmer admired the fine food and drink at the doctor’s table. His heart yearned for something like that, and he thought how nice it would be if he were a doctor. He lingered there awhile and finally asked if it was possible for someone like him to become a doctor.   “Of course,” said the doctor. “In no time at all.”   “What do I have to do?” asked the farmer.   “First, you must buy yourself an ABC book, the kind with the picture of a rooster in it. Second, sell your wagon and your two oxen, and buy some clothes and other things that doctors tend to need. Third, you must have a sign painted with the words ‘I am Doctor Know-All’ and nail it above your front door.”   The farmer did everything he was told, and when he had doctored for some time but not very long, a rich and mighty nobleman was robbed of some money, and had heard about Doctor Know-All, who was living in such and such a village and would probably know where the money had gone. So the nobleman had his carriage hitched up, drove out to the village, and inquired at the farmer’s house whether he was Doctor Know-All.   Yes, that was he, the farmer answered. Then the nobleman asked Doctor Know-All to come with him and help him get back his stolen money. The farmer agreed, but added that Greta, his wife, had to come along too. The nobleman agreed. He offered them both a seat in his carriage, and they drove off together. When they came to the nobleman’s house, the table was already set, and Doctor Know-All was to eat with the lord, but he wanted his wife Greta to eat with them too. So they all sat down together at the table.   Now, when the first servant arrived with a dish of delicious food, the farmer nudged his wife and said, “Greta, th

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