"Oh, my poor man," exclaimed the kind old lady， "It must be dreadful to be lame¹. But it would be much worse if you were blind."

"You're absolutely right," said the beggar, obviously an old hand at the game." When I was blind, people kept giving me foreign coins."

“啊，可怜的人，”善良的老妇人惊叹道。“脚瘸就够惨的了，要是眼瞎就更糟了。”

“你说的一点儿没错，”那乞丐说，他显然是乞讨老手。“我眼瞎的时候，人们老是给我外币。”