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Jokes
From Ancient China
How
Big It Has Become Overnight?
One
day a scholar taught his son to read the Chinese word "one".
(Chinese word "one" is formed by a horizontal line) Soon
the boy leant it by heart.
The
next day while the scholar was wiping the table, with his wet rag
he wrote on the table top a "one" with a very long stroke
to quiz his son. The boy could not read it at all.
"This
is the word "one" I taught you to read yesterday, isn't
it?" said the scholar.
"Oh!.
But how big it has become overnight!" said the boy in surprise.
(Compiled
and translated by Liu Jianting et al.)
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