[00:06.34]Teach the Stranger How to Walk Properly
[00:11.36]Many years since in a small territory,
[00:15.90]there was not one of the inhabitants who did not stutter when he spoke,
[00:22.16]and halt in walking; both these defects, moreover, were considered accomplishments.
[00:32.07]A stranger saw the evil, and thinking how they would admire his walking,
[00:39.51]went about without halting, after the usual manner of our race.
[00:45.90]Everyone stopped to look at him and all these who looked, laughed,
[00:52.17]and holding their sides to express their merriment, shouted,
[00:57.90]ˇ°Teach the stranger how to walk properly!ˇ±
[01:03.77]The stranger considered it his duty to cast the reproach from himself.
[01:11.65]ˇ°You halt,ˇ± he cried,
[01:14.24]ˇ°it is not I, you must accustom yourselves to leave off so awkward a habit!ˇ±
[01:23.17]This only increased the uproar, when they heard him speak;
[01:28.73]he did not even stammer,
[01:31.72]this was sufficient to disgrace him and he was laughed at throughout the country.
[01:38.98]Habit will render faults which we have been accustomed to regard from youth, beautiful.
[01:49.11]In vain will a stranger attempt to convince us that we are in error.