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Every morning we like to begin our day with a cup of tea. We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe did not know anything about tea. Some people had heard about tea but very few of them knew what to do with it. There is a story of an English sailor who traveled to the East, the West, and the South. He was in India and China. One day he came home and brought sonic tea leaves as a present to his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a "tea party". When her friends came to the "tea party" the old woman brought in a large plate and put it in the middle of the table. There were some brown leaves of the tea on it The old woman's friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea leaves. At that moment the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said: "Mother, what have you done with the tea leaves?" - "I have boiled" them, as you told me to do". - "And what have you done with the water?" - "I threw it away, of course," answered the poor woman. "Now you may throw away the leaves too", said her son. This story shows that people in England knew very little about tea at that time and they liked to tell jokes about it.

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