THE LEARNED SON
A son once returned from the city to his father, who lived in the country.
"We're mowing today," said the father. "Take a rake and come and help me."
But the son did not want to work, so he said, "I am a scholar, and I have forgotten all those peasant words. What is a rake?"
As he walked across the yard he stepped on a rake that was lying in his way and it struck him on the forehead. He suddenly seemed to recall what a rake was, and, clutching his head he cried, "What fool left a rake lying here?"
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