Wise Men of Gotham and Other Stories (ESL/EFL)

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Million-Word Reading ProjectMWRPESL/EFL15002153500

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Wise Men of Gotham is the early name given to the people of the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, who are known for being foolish.
Stories of foolish people are told in almost every country. In Germany there are the Schildburgers, from the town of Schilda, and in the backcountry south of Warsaw, Poland, there are Chelmites, who come from a small Jewish village, named Chelm. In Ireland, stories are told about a foolish man named Sir Gaulard, and there are pedants in almost every country. In the old days, these stories brought joy to the dull and hard life of the people.
Even today, these stories still make us laugh. After laughing at these people, we might ask ourselves: aren't we modern people, who consider ourselves wise, sometime just as foolish or even more foolish than those ancient people?

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