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An Old Woman became almost totally from a of the eyes, and, after a Doctor, made an agreement with him in the of that she should pay him a high if he her, while if he failed he was to nothing. The Doctor a course of treatment, and every time he paid her a visit he took away with him some article out of the house, until at last, when he visited her for the last time, and the . When the Old Woman saw that the house was empty she pay him his ; and, after repeated on her part, he before the for payment of her debt. On being brought into court she was ready with her defence. said she, "has stated the facts about our agreement . I to pay him a fee if he cured me, and he, on his part, to charge nothing if he failed. Now, he says I am cured; but I say that I am blinder than ever, and I can what I say. When my eyes were bad I could at any rate see well enough to be aware that my house a certain amount of furniture and other things; but now, I am cured, I see anything there at all."