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37] medicine may prolong your father's life." The son said : " That ia easy enough." After the doctor left he went out with a knife. It was then summer time. He saw a man at his own door, naked and asleep; he at once went over and forcibly cut a piece of flesh from the man's leg. The man woke up, greatly frightened and screaming with pain. The other man said : " Don't scream ; don't scream ; do you not know that to cut one's leg to save a father is the most noble deed in the world?"

Chapter LXX. — Bad Luck for a Doctor. (^ J: ■fj; T) /jANCE there was an unskillful doctor. After his marriage, a daughter was born to him. One day one of his patients died under his care. The relatives of the deceased would not stand this, so the doctor gave away his own son to replace the dead one. Again he happened to kill some one else's daughter by his medicine; he gave away his own daughter to the deceased's family. He had only a wife left at home. The couple were in grief. Just at they were in the moment of deep sorrow, some one knocked at the door to call the doctor, who went to the door himself and asked : " Who is it that requires medical treatment ? " The man answered : "It is my wife." The doctor went into the house and said to his wife : " Bad luck on us ; surely there must be some one who admires yon."

Chapter LXXI.— The Charitable Deceiver. (M ^WtM) CiTHERE was a soldier, wearing cotton clothing and cloth boots, who went into a temple to have a look around. When the monk saw his style of dress, he thought he must be a man of the common class ; he did not receive him courteously.