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A mushroomDate: 2015-10-07; view: 799. A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES (after Jerome K. Jerome) II
I ___ (to read) the prescription: "One pound of beefsteak, with one bottle of beer every six hours. One ten-mile walk every morning. One bed at 11 every night. And don't fill up your head with things you ___ (not to understand)". A Frenchman was travelling in England. He couldn't speak English at all. He knew only a few English words. And was difficult for him, to make himself understood. One day he came to a country inn. He felt hungry and decided to have lunch there. He wanted to order some mushrooms which he liked very much. So he called a waiter and spoke to him in French. The waiter couldn't understand a single word. What was the Frenchman do? At last he had a clue. He will understand ‘what I want', he said to himself. So he took a piece of paper and a pencil and drew a picture of a mushroom. The waiter looked at it and ran out of the room. A few minutes later the waiter returned with an umbrella. For this was how he'd understood the picture. 1) Where was travelling the Frenchman? 2) Could he speak English language? 3) Where did he decide to have a lunch? 4) What did he want to order? 5) What did the Frenchman do with a pencil and a piece of paper?
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