Doctor Knowall

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fairy tales by the brother's grin doctor Nowell. There was
once upon a time a poor peasant called Crab, who
drove with two oxen a load of wood to the
town and sold it to a doctor for two tailors.
When the money was being counted out to him, it

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so happened that the doctor was sitting at the table,
and when the peasant saw how well he ate and drank,
his heart desired what he saw, and would willingly have
been a doctor too. So he remained standing awhile, and
at length inquired if he too could not be a doctor.
Oh yes, said the doctor, that is soon managed. What

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must I do, asked the peasant. In the first place,
buy yourself an A B C book of the kind
which has a cock on the frontispiece. In the second,
turn your cart and your two oxen into money, and
get yourself some clothes and whatsoever else pertains to medicine. Thirdly,

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have a sign painted for yourself with the words I
am doctor nowall, 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 a while,
but not long, a rich and great lord had some
money stolen. Then he was told about doctor. Nowall who

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lived in such and such a village and must know
what had become of the money. So the lord had
the horses harnessed to his carriage, drove out to the
village and asked Krab if he were doctor Knowwoh, yes
he was. He said, then he was to go with
him and bring back the stolen money. Oh yes, but Dretta,

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my wife must go too. The lord was willing and
let both of them have a seat in the carriage,
and they all drove away together. When he came to
the nobleman's castle, the table was spread and Crab was
told to sit down and eat. Yes, but my wife
Greta too, said he, and he seated himself with her

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at the table. And when the first servant came with
a dish of delicate fare, the peasant nudged his wife
and said, Greta, that was the first, meaning that was
the servant who brought the first dish. The servant, however,
thought he intended by that to say that is the

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first thief. And as he actually was so, he was
terrified and said to his comrade outside, the doctor knows all.
We shall fare ill he said, I was the first.
The second did not want to go in at all,
but was forced, so when he went in with his dish,
the peasant nudged his wife and said, Greta, that is

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the second. This servant was equally alarmed, and he got
out as fast as he could. The third fared no better,
for the peasant again said Greta that he's the third.
The fourth had to carry in a dish that was covered,
and the lord told the doctor that he was to
show his skill and guess what was beneath the cover.

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Actually there were crabs. The doctor looked at the dish,
had no idea what to say, and cried, ah, poor crab.
When the lord heard that, he cried, there he knows it.
He must also know who has the money on this.

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The servants looked terribly uneasy and made a sign to
the doctor that they wished him to step outside for
a moment. When therefore he went out, all four of
them confessed to him that they had stolen the money,
and said that they would willingly restore it and give
him a heavy summon to the bargain if he would

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not denounce them, for if he did, they would be
hanged they led him to the spot where the money
was concealed. With this, the doctor was satisfied and returned
to the hall, sat down to the table and said,
my Lord, now, will I search in my book where
the gold is hidden. The fifth servant, however, crept into

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the stove to hear if the doctor knew still more.
But the doctor sat still and opened his A. B c. Book,
turned the pages backwards and forwards, and looked for the cock.
As he could not find it, immediately, he said, I
know you are here, so you had better come out.

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Then the fellow in the stove thought that the doctor
meant him, and full of terror, sprung out, crying that
man knows everything. Then doctor Knowwall showed the lord where
the money was, but did not say who had stolen it,
and received from both sides much money in reward, and
became a renowned man and of doctor Nowell. By the

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brother's grim