A woman woke up one morning with a bad earache.
The pain was so bad that she went to see a doctor.
  She had to wait a long time in the doctor’s waiting
room because he was very busy.
  While she was waiting, the pain got worse.
  Also a piece of string began to grow out of her ear.
  When the doctor saw her, he was very surprised.
  “There seems to be a piece of string coming out of your
ear,” he said.
  Carefully he began to pull the string. Inch by inch, he pulled
the piece of string out of her ear. Then it would not come any
further.
  “There seems to be something at the end of the string,” the
doctor said. “I’ll have to pull harder.”
  He began to pull harder, but the pain was so great that the
woman asked him to stop.

  “I must take out whatever is in your ear,” the doctor told
her. “I’ll give you something to help you sleep while I take it out.”
  The doctor gave the woman sleeping medicine, and soon
she was in a deep sleep.
  He called his nurse to help him, and together they pulled
on the piece of string.
  Suddenly there was a sound, and out of the woman’s ear
came a large bunch of roses.
  The doctor was very surprised. He had never seen
anything like this before.
  When the woman woke up, he said, “I pulled a large bunch
of roses out of your ear. Do you know where they came from?”
  “Wasn’t there a card with them?” the woman asked him.

              耳朵里的东西
  一个妇女早晨起床，觉得耳朵疼得厉害。最后她难以忍受，就去看医生
了。
  医生却很忙，让她等了很久。
  等候时，她的疼痛加剧了。
  一根绳从她的耳朵里长了出来。
  当医生看见她时，十分惊讶。
  “好像有一根绳从你耳朵里长出来了。”医生说。
  他开始仔细地拽绳。一寸一寸地，他把绳从耳朵里拽出来。后来他就拽
不动了。
  “似乎绳的另一端有什么东西，”医生说，“我必须用力拽啦。”
他开始用力拽，但是太疼了，妇女就让医生停了下来。
  “我必须拽出你耳朵里的东西，”医生告诉她，“我会给你催眠， 然后
再把它取出来。”
  医生向妇女喷洒了麻药，她很快就睡熟了。
  他把护士找来帮忙，和他一起拽绳的另一端。
  突然发出声响，他们从这个女人的耳朵里拽出一束玫瑰花。
  医生非常惊讶。以前可从来没有这样的事情发生。
  妇女醒来后，医生对她说：“我从你耳朵里拽出一大把玫瑰，你知道花
从哪里来的吗？”
  “花里没有卡片吗？”妇女问道。