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右 A long time ago, there lived a merchant in England with his beauf 6計
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go to prison.
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*money-lender。 Though the money-lender waS old and ugly, he wanted Very mu の
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daughter. In those days, if a person borrowed money and couldnt return i季 he 衣
Unfortunately。 this merchant OoWe ed a lot of money to a
marry the merchants beautiful daughter. S0, he said he would cancel the merchamr。
*2debt if the merchant would agree to give him his daughter.
加 Neither the merchant nor his daughter jiked pis_ idea, but they diqnt Im
what else to do. One day the *?cunning moneydender said to them, Lets ply *a
game of chance. 1 will put a black stone and a white stone into this empty bag 2
Then he looked at the merchants beautiful daughter and said, "You must take one ot
the stones. Hf you take the black stone, you W山 mmarry me and your fathers deht mil
be cancelled. Hf you take the white stone, You can St4Y with your father and the debt
will sil be cancelled。 But Histen! HE you refuse to take a stone, your father will be
*5thrown into jail So, pick carefully my girl"
回 The merchant and his daughter had no choice, So they agreed to try it The
three people were standing on a path in the merchanfs garden. There were manmy
small stones on fhe path。 The money-lender picked up two small stones and quicky
The girl was looking carefully at him, and she noticed that he
among the other stones. "Oh Im
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