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An antelope was asked to go to a dance. She bought a new dress and necklace for the dance. Then she had her horns and hooves done. Since she lived alone, she struggled to dress herself. Running late, she encountered a herd of stampeding buffalo approaching the trail. She thought she was fast enough to get past them. But, unfortunately, she was run over by the buffalo. And this is the origin of the self-dressed stamped antelope.
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Well now, once there was this chap named Zebediah was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers, called pullets, and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs.
Zeb kept records, and any rooster that didn't perform well went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of Zeb's time; so, Zeb got a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so that Zeb could tell from a distance which rooster was or was not performing.
Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.
Zeb's favorite rooster was old Brewster. A very fine specimen he was too, but on this particular morning Zeb noticed that Brewster's bell had not rung at all!
Zeb went to investigate.
The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells a-ringing! The pullets hearing the roosters coming would run for cover. But to Zeb's amazement Brewster had his bell in his beak so it couldn't ring. He'd quietly sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
Zeb was so proud of Brewster that he entered him in the county fair and Brewster was an overnight sensation.
The judges not only awarded him the No Bell Piece Prize but also the Pullet Surprise.
Zeb kept records, and any rooster that didn't perform well went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of Zeb's time; so, Zeb got a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so that Zeb could tell from a distance which rooster was or was not performing.
Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.
Zeb's favorite rooster was old Brewster. A very fine specimen he was too, but on this particular morning Zeb noticed that Brewster's bell had not rung at all!
Zeb went to investigate.
The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells a-ringing! The pullets hearing the roosters coming would run for cover. But to Zeb's amazement Brewster had his bell in his beak so it couldn't ring. He'd quietly sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
Zeb was so proud of Brewster that he entered him in the county fair and Brewster was an overnight sensation.
The judges not only awarded him the No Bell Piece Prize but also the Pullet Surprise.
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And then there was the 90-year-old man who said to his doctor, "I've never felt better. I have an 18-year old bride who is pregnant with my child. What do you think of that?"
The doctor replied, "I have an elderly friend who is a hunter and never misses a season. One day he was in a hurry and picked up his umbrella by mistake. When he got to the creek, he saw a beaver. He raised his umbrella and went "bang, bang, bang", and the beaver fell dead. What do you think of that?"
The 90-year-old said, "I'd say somebody else shot the beaver."
The doctor said, "My point exactly!!"
The doctor replied, "I have an elderly friend who is a hunter and never misses a season. One day he was in a hurry and picked up his umbrella by mistake. When he got to the creek, he saw a beaver. He raised his umbrella and went "bang, bang, bang", and the beaver fell dead. What do you think of that?"
The 90-year-old said, "I'd say somebody else shot the beaver."
The doctor said, "My point exactly!!"
Watch nature, because it’s our greatest teacher, it moves and flows and moves on again. We can never be free until we disengage, so allow life to flow as you find it. The way it is, is the way it is.
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