> > Back in cowboy
times, a westbound wagon train was
> lost and low on
> > food. No
other humans had been seen for days, and
> then the pioneers
> >
saw an old Jew sitting beneath a tree.
> >
> >
>
>
> > "Is there some place ahead where we can get food?"
>
>
> >
> >
> > "Vell, I tink so," the old man said,
"but I
> wouldn't go up dat hill
> > und down de udder
side. Somevun tole me you'd run
> into a big bacon
> >
tree."
> >
> >
> >
> > "A bacon tree?" asked
the wagon train leader.
> >
> >
> >
> >
"Yah, a bacon tree. Vould I lie? Trust me. I
> vouldn't go dere."
>
>
> >
> >
> > The leader goes back and tells his
people what the
> old Jew said.
> > "So why did he say not to go
there?" a person
> asked.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Other pioneers said, "Oh, you know those Jews-
> they lie just for
a
> > joke."
> >
> >
> >
> > So the
wagon train goes up the hill and down the
> other side.
> >
Suddenly, Indians attacked them from everywhere
> and massacred
all
> > except the leader who manages to escape and get
> back to
the old Jew.
> >
> >
> >
> > Near dead, the
man shouts, "You fool! You sent us
> to our deaths! We
> >
followed your route, but there was no bacon tree,
> just hundreds
of
> > Indians who killed everyone but me."
> >
>
>
> >
> > The old man holds up his hand and says, "Vait
a
> minute." He quickly
> > picks up an English-Yiddish
dictionary and begins
> thumbing through
> > it. "Oy, I made such
ah big mishtake! It vuzn't a
> bacon tree...
> >
>
>
> >
> >
> > (Are you ready?)
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
You'll love this !!!!!!!!!
> >
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> >
> >Get set
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> >
> > "It vuz a ham
bush."