... DOCTOR KNOWALL
There was once upon a time a poor peasant called Crabb, who
drove with two oxen a load of wood to the town, and sold it to a
doctor for two talers. When the ... yourself with
the words: ‘I am Doctor Knowall, ’ and have that nailed up above
your house-door.’ The peasant did everything that he had been told
to do. When he had doctored people awhile, but ... So he
r...
... support me.’ ‘Learn what you will,’ spoke the father, ‘it is all the same
to me. Here are fifty talers for you. Take these and go into the wide world,
and tell no one from whence you come, and ... than that, I can easily keep it in mind.’
When the day dawned, therefore, the boy put his fifty talers into his pocket,
and went forth on the great highway, and continually said to himself: ‘If...
... so vain that she could not bear to think
that anyone could be handsomer than she was. She had a fairy looking-
glass, to which she used to go, and then she would gaze upon herself in it,
and