Fable 87 - The Old Woman and the Doctor

An old woman whose eyes were failing summoned a doctor for a certain fee. He went to her house and, each time, he treated her
eyes with unguent. On each occasion while her eyes were thus shut, he stole her furniture piece by piece. When he had removed
everything, the eye treatment came to an end and he demanded his agreed fee. The old woman refused to pay him so he took her
before the judge. She then declared that she had indeed promised him a fee if he restored her sight, but since the doctor’s course
of treatment her condition was worse than before. For, she said, ‘Previously I could see all the furniture at home, but now I can’t see any of it.’

Thus it is that dishonest people, thinking only of their greed, furnish evidence of their own guilt.