A Boatman
Once upon a time, there was a man who had been suffering from insomnia. His name was Eutychus, and he worked as a boatman. One morning, his wife asked him where they should have lunch but he was quiet and unresponsive. She noticed that Eutychus was nodding to himself while holding his coffee cup. "Wake up!" said his wife. He then dropped his cup on his right thigh and woke up. After eating breakfast, Eutychus went to work. He rowed his boat for his customers. One of them asked Eutychus to speed up the boat because it seemed that it was going forward too slowly but again he was unresponsive. They saw that he was just nodding to himself. "Sir! What are you doing?" exclaimed the customer. The boatman lost his balance and fell into the water. Luckily, some of the passengers rescued him. After that incident, they decided it was safer to return to shore. In the evening, Eutychus took a Japanese class. The instructor whose name was Paul, taught many grammatic