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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: no reruns of father goose
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 23:19:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 23:19:06 1985
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Once upon a time, in Days of Yore, which is located in a rather
backwoods area of the country, there lived a remarkably innocent
young man named Nathaniel.  Now Nathaniel, or Nate, as he was
often called, one day came of age, and his oppressive and none too
dutiful legal guardians just turned him out into the street, as it
were.  Before giving him the boot, however, they did take the
trouble to inform him that he was, in fact, the heir to what was
locally considered a sizable fortune in rural real estate.  This
comparatively immense farm tract was being held for him and currently
managed by a man who turned out to be a rather distant cousin, but
who was kindly and surprisingly helpful, eventually doing most of
what needed to be done to start Nate out in business on the farm.
Very shortly afterward, however, the cousin died, leaving Nate alone
with little experience and very few ideas.  Poor Nate was absolutely
in a quandary as to what sort of reliable cash crop to plant on his
land.  He had heard that one or two of his neighbors were raising 
a certain (shall we say) ``herb'', whose production was said to be
uncommonly lucrative.  Our hero wasn't really into haute cuisine,
though, so in search of an expert opinion, he consulted a local
soothsayer, an elderly woman whose character was completely beyond
question, if you follow my meaning.  At the urging afforded by
about a third of Nate's annual income, she gazed vacantly into
her crystal ball for most of an hour, until she finally intoned,


























                         SOW ROPE, NATEY-O!





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    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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