In a city there once lived a woman who knew everything. he rname was Mrs. Ford. She was the wife of Ford, a banker.
When any of her friends talked to her about anything at all, she knew all about it. No one ever found anything that she did not know.
One day two young men came to live in the city, and they met Mars. Ford at a friend's house. They began to talk about old Indian rings, but Mrs Ford knew more abou them than they knew. She told them all about old Africans rings too.
" That woman knows a lot," said one of the young men angrily when they were outside the house.
On another day they met Mrs Ford in the street, and the three began to talk about Greece. Mrs Ford knew all about Greece. She told the other two about the people of Greece, about the River Arta, and about the hills of the country. On another day she told them a lot of things about newspapers. Once she showed them some old Egyptian words, and she could read them. She knew everything.
The two young men became very tired of Mrs Ford, but they often gad to meet her and talk to her.
One day they were asked to go to dinner at one of the houses in the city. Mrs Ford was asked to go too.
" let us find something which she doesn't know," said one of them. " we'll read about it and then we'll talk about it at dinner."
One the next day one of them was in a bookshop, and he found a big book.
This book was called Everything you want to know, and it was written by R. Cotter. He bought it and took it home.
" This Is just the book that we want," said the other when he saw it. " It has all kinds of things in it. look here!" He shoed his friend Lamps in Old Greece, The Smaller Animals of Africa, and Indian Rivers.
" We must find something better than those," said the man who bought it.
They looked again and found The eyes of a Fish. It told them everything about the eyes, and even about the inside parts. They read it trhugh many times, and when they went to the dinner they knew all about the eyes of a fish.
At dinner, when the fish was brought to the table, the two young men began to talk about the eyes of a fish. One of them asked Mrs. Ford a lot of questions the inside parts os the eyes.
Shew knew all the answers and she said the same as the book said.
" Have you read that book which Is called Everything you want to know?" he aske. " You say just the same as that book says."
" Read it ?" she cried. " I wrote it !"
" You wrote it ! But it was written by R. Cotter."
"Yes," she said. " Rose Cotter was my name before I was married."
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