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From: "Lou Halsan" <>
Subject: Daily Joke - Lou Halsan
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:30:34 -0800


from Anita R. Lou.
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THE BACON TREE
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 Jewish rabbi 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, an bacon tree. Vould I lie? . . . Trust me.
I vouldn t go dere."


The leader goes back and tells his people what
the rabbi said. "So why did he say not to go
there?," a person asked. Other pioneers said,
"Oh, you know those Jewish people - they don t
eat bacon."


> So the wagon train goes up the hill and down the
> other side. Suddenly, Indians attack them from
> everywhere and massacre all except the leader
> who manages to escape and get back to the old
> rabbi.
>
>
> 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 Jewish man holds up his hand and says,
> "Oy, vait a minute." He quickly picks up an
> English-Yiddish dictionary and begins thumbing
> through it.
>
>
> "Oy Gevalt, I made myself such ah big mishtake!
> It vuzn t a bacon tree . . . it vuz a ham bush!!



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