Monthly Archives: August 2013
25.The Bald Man and the Fly
A fly settled on the head of a bald man and bit him. In his eagerness to kill it, he hit himself a smart slap.
But the fly escaped, and said to him in derision, “You tried to kill me for just one little bite; what will you do to yourself now, for the heavy smack you have just given yourself?”
“Oh, for that blow I bear no grudge,” he replied, “for I never intended myself any harm; but as for you, you contemptible insect, who live by sucking human blood, I’d have borne a good deal more than that for the satisfaction of dashing the life out of you!”
“YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DESPICABLE ENEMIES.”
24.The Bald Knight
A BALD KNIGHT who wore a wig, went out to hunt. A sudden puff of wind blew off his hat and wig, at which a loud laugh rang forth from his companions. He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by saying,
“What a marvel it is that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have forsaken even the man on whose head they grew.”
❖Every event has its reason.
❖Don’t spend too much on a wig; its hair isn’t yours anyway.
❖ Bald men don’t really need better wig glue, but to renounce things that make discerning persons laugh at them.
23.The Axe of Gold
A WORKMAN was felling wood by the side of a river when his axe dropped by accident into a deep pool. Through the mishap he had lost the means of his livelihood. He sat down on the bank and lamented his hard fate. An able diver appeared and wanted to know why he wept so loudly. After the man told his misfortune, the diver plunged into the stream. A little while later he brought up a golden axe and asked if that was the one he had lost.
“No it isn’t,” said the man.
The diver disappeared beneath the water a second time and returned with a silver axe.
“Is this your axe?” he asked again.
The workman said it was not. ******
22.The Astronomer
An ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said:
“Listen, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, don’t you manage to see what is on earth?”
% See what you can.
