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5)
Apple
Mrs
Miller had two sons. One morning on vacation, as she was doing the laundry
for the family, her younger son came and asked for some money for sweets.
That was bad for his teeth, Mrs Miller told him and instead offered him two
apples, one of which he should give to his elder brother. One of the apples
was much larger than the other, and as the little boy liked apples, he kept
the bigger one for himself and gave the smaller one to his brother. When the
older boy saw that his brother had a much larger apple, he said to him,
"It's selfish to keep the bigger one for yourself. If mother had given
me the apples, I would have given you the bigger one." "I know you
would," replied his brother. "That's why I took it."
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4)
The thief
Mr
Miller had a nice shop in the main street of a small town. He sold jewellery,
watches and things like that. Everything went well for a few years, and then
within two months, Mr Miller's shop was broken in at night twice, and a lot
of jewellery was stolen each time. Three weeks later, the police had still not
managed to catch the thief, so Mr Miller decided to do something about it
himself. He bought a camera, fixed it in his shop so it could take photos of
anyone breaking in at night, and put out some cheap jewellery in the shop
window for the thief. A few nights later, the thief returned. But he did not
touch any of the cheap pieces of jewellery Mr Miller had laid out for him. He
took the camera. It was worth a hundred and fifty euros.
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3)
The hitchhiker
Mr
Miller drove to Oxford on a cloudy day when he saw a hitchhiker holding a
sign above his head saying "Cambridge". Mr. Miller thought it
unwise to pick up hitchhikers because he had read frightening stories about
them. However, he was a friendly man, so he stopped and
said, "You'll get wet and catch a cold. You are on the wrong way to
Cambridge. This road goes to Oxford." "Yes, I know," answered
the hitchhiker cheerfully, as he got into Mr Miller's car. "I've only
been standing here for a few minutes, and I knew someone would probably stop
to tell me that I was on the wrong way. If I'd held up a sign saying
"Oxford", I might have had to wait an hour for someone to
stop."
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2)
The fisherman
Henry
went to his usual pub before lunch when he saw a poorly dressed man fishing
in a small puddle of rainwater about five centimetres deep. Henry stopped and
watched the man for a few minutes. He saw that most of the people passing by
believed that he had to be pretty crazy. Henry felt sorry for the man. After
a few minutes, he went up to him and invited him for a drink in the pub.
Delighted, the fisherman accepted, and the two men went into the pub
together. Henry bought the fisherman some drinks and finally said to him:
"You have been fishing out here, haven’t you? How many did you catch
this morning, if I may ask?" "You are the eighth," replied the
fisherman cheerfully.
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1)
The potato farmer
A
potato farmer was sent to jail at the time when he should have ploughed the
fields for planting the new potato seed. He knew that his wife would not be
strong enough to do the ploughing alone, but that she could do the planting.
And he also knew that he had no friends or neighbours willing to do the
ploughing for him. Therefore, he wrote his wife a letter saying that she
should not plough the potato field because he had hidden the money and the
gun there. Ten days later, he received a letter from his wife saying, "I
think someone reads your letters before they go out of the prison. Some
policemen arrived here two days ago and ploughed up the whole potato field.
What should I do now?" The prisoner wrote back immediately: "Of
course, plant the potatoes!"
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