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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Minnehaha (episode 1)
Message-ID: <395@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 19:04:59 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.395
Posted: Fri Jan 10 19:04:59 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jan-86 04:40:18 EST
Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
Lines: 37
Summary: The beginning of a rather silly story.

PROLOGUE

   Long ago, when bold explorers sailed the seas in wooden ships in
search of new lands, one of them, not the boldest but up there with
them, was the famous adventurer Haiwatha.  In his ship, the "Hoptoad,"
he sailed the seas and waved at everyone he saw.
   One day, Haiwatha made a startling discovery!  He had been dozing at
the helm again, and was awakened by a jarring crunch as the ship ran
aground on an island.  He named the island Minnehaha.
   Unfortunately the "Hoptoad" had been badly damaged in the collision,
and so Hiawatha was forced to remain on the island, subsisting
primarily on greasy hamburgers which he bought at a fast-food
restaurant, for several months, until he was rescued by a shipload of
Tyrolean merchant princes on their way to Bhopal.
   But had Hiawatha known of their sinister plan, he would probably
have fled, for once at sea these villainous noblemen tied him to the
mast and made him listen to them sing ballads.
   However, clever Hiawatha managed to steal a lute string, and late
that night he used it to saw through his bonds.  Then, taking a
brightly colored lifeboat and sufficient supplies of fig newtons and
ale to see him through to Hong Kong, he set off without even a parrot
for company.
   Upon reaching Hong Kong, Hiawatha wrote a book about his adventures
entitled, "Fig Newtons and Small Islands: An East Indies Diary."  The
book was an instant bestseller, and Hiawatha retired from the explorer
biz and bought a large house with three marble pillars all the way up
the front and a statue of a dachsch dauc dacshu a small dog in the
front room.

NEXT:  WISDOM OF THE TOOLY

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