08-04-2010, 12:53 PM
" Naw, I purposely left the doors closed on these (don't wanna stink-up the layout room) just to avoid any of the usual cliches. Having personally dug and cribbed several 5-holers, none of those added "details". "
I'll try to keep this as short as possible: It's the shortest possible version of a "tale" told by Marshal Dodge, a "downeast story teller", I had the pleasure of listening to, aboard the schooner "Mary Day", up in Penobscot Bay, Me. ( the original tale took about half an hour to tell )
Set-up:
Farmer's well runs dry. Dowser is called, and finds water up top the hill, Well digger comes out, and starts digging the new well. After almost a mile down, the dowser is called to find another "spot", it's found, and the well is dug and water is clean and plentiful. The discussion begins about what to do with the "mile deep" well, they didn't want to have some child accidentally fall down that well, and the farmer, remembering that he needed to dig a new privvy, decides that he'd move it to the top of the hill, and "never have to dig again".
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Six months later:
Man and his wife stop out front, she wants to "use the facility", so the farmer directs her to the top of the hill. She no sooner gets to the top, when she turns running down the hill screaming " Farmer, farmer, there's a man up there ! and he's turning purple!!!!
Farmer looks at her and says," Oh, that's my hired hand Virgil, he's fine. He just sits up there enjoying the morning breezes, "pinches one off",......... and then holds his breath 'til it hits the bottom.
I'll try to keep this as short as possible: It's the shortest possible version of a "tale" told by Marshal Dodge, a "downeast story teller", I had the pleasure of listening to, aboard the schooner "Mary Day", up in Penobscot Bay, Me. ( the original tale took about half an hour to tell )
Set-up:
Farmer's well runs dry. Dowser is called, and finds water up top the hill, Well digger comes out, and starts digging the new well. After almost a mile down, the dowser is called to find another "spot", it's found, and the well is dug and water is clean and plentiful. The discussion begins about what to do with the "mile deep" well, they didn't want to have some child accidentally fall down that well, and the farmer, remembering that he needed to dig a new privvy, decides that he'd move it to the top of the hill, and "never have to dig again".
_______________________
Six months later:
Man and his wife stop out front, she wants to "use the facility", so the farmer directs her to the top of the hill. She no sooner gets to the top, when she turns running down the hill screaming " Farmer, farmer, there's a man up there ! and he's turning purple!!!!
Farmer looks at her and says," Oh, that's my hired hand Virgil, he's fine. He just sits up there enjoying the morning breezes, "pinches one off",......... and then holds his breath 'til it hits the bottom.
We always learn far more from our own mistakes, than we will ever learn from another's advice.
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!