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From: mlf@panda.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum)
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Subject: Father goose
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 13:23:54 EST
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   Well, I haven't seen this among the "Father Goose" tales
so far, so, though it's old, here it comes.

   'Twas on the Ark, and Noah, having received an indication
that the long rains were over (an ark sign, as it were), moored
the vehicle at the edge of the water.  He bade all the animals
"Go forth and multiply."  And all the animals went happily down
the gangway and into the woods.

   Noah thought the ark was empty, and was just about to leave
when he saw two snakes lying in a corner, weeping.  He inquired
what the problem was, and was told

	"We can't multiply, we're adders!"

   Many long hours pondered he, until finally going forth into
the woods with trusty axe, he felled many trees.  He removed their
branches and split their trunks into halves.  Placing the trunks
with flat side upwards, he fastened them together to make a large,
flat surface.  Then he took four more short sections of tree trunk
and used them to support the flat surface off the ground.

   He presented his new creation to the snakes, who were
ecstatically happy.

   And the moral of the story is......



















	"With a table of logs, even adders can multiply!"



And you thought "go forth and multiply" was a [reverse] Polish joke!

Incidentally, not all the animals on the Ark travelled in pairs...




















The worms traveled in apples.

Should we move this to net.micro.mac?

-- 

					Matt Fichtenbaum
					"Our job is to rescue fires,
					not put out your cat."