Chapter 26 home and shoemaker

A philosopher, wearing a pair of worn shoes, came to a shoemaker's shop.The philosopher said to the shoemaker, "Please mend my shoes." The shoemaker said: "I'm mending another person's shoes right now; I can mend yours after another person's shoes are mended. But leave your shoes here, and I'll wear someone else's shoes today. Come and get your own shoes tomorrow." The philosopher got angry and said: "It's not my own shoes, I don't wear them." The shoemaker said: "You can't put your feet in other people's shoes. So, are you really a philosopher? There is a shoemaker on this street who knows more philosophy than me. Go ask him to mend shoes." "

The Philosopher And The Cobbler There came to a cobblers shop a philosopher with worn shoes. And the philosopher said to the cobbler, "Please mend my shoes." And the cobbler said, "I am mending another mans shoes now, and there are still other shoes to patch before I can come to yours. But leave your shoes here, and wear this other pair today, and come tomorrow for your own." Then the philosopher was indignant, and he said, "I wear no shoes that are not mine own." And the cobbler said, "Well then, are you in truth a philosopher, and cannot enfold your feet with the shoes of another man? Upon this very street there is another cobbler who understands philosophers better than I do. Go you to him for mending "