Friday, June 09, 2006

Kids say the funniest things

I've started reading 'The Other Side of the Dale' by Gervase Phinn, which is a story about a school inspector inthe Yorkshire Dales, and found this bit funny so I thought I'd share a bit about a boy named John with you. Kids really do say the silliest things...

When he was little, Mrs Brown told me, he had been awakened by his father one night and taken into the byre to see the birth of a black Angus calf. The vet had suggested that it was about time the boy saw this miracle of nature. John had stood on a bale of hay in the cattle shed, staring in the half light as the great cow strained to deliver her calf. The small, wet, furry bundle soon arrived and the vet, wet with perspiration and with a triumphant look on his face, had gently wiped the calf's mouth and then held up the new-born creature for the little boy to see. John had stared wide-eyed.
'What do you think of that?' the vet had asked him. 'Isn't that a wonderful sight?'
John had thought for a moment before replying. 'How did it swallow the dog in the first place?' he asked.

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