A smart ol' mule named Jim...

[kentuck]

An old farmer down in Kentucky had a mule who he swore was the smartest animal on earth.

Once, when Ol' Jim got fleas on him, he jumped in the Cumberland River and swum out to the middle with a stick in his mouth. The old farmer said he looked like a submarine with a periscope.

But the old mule was pretty smart. Those fleas would climb on the stick and he would shake them off until there were no more fleas on him.

Then he swum back to the river bank and shook himself off and there was not one flea to be found.

The old farmer said that the politicians in Washington were a lot like those fleas. When they are about to drown, they get on the stick...

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. I love Kentucky humor

I have dozens of cuz'ns there and they are the best tall tale tellers in the gol danged world --just ask them and they will tell you it is so!