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A travelling salesman is asked to stay for dinner with a farming family. Seated at the table is the farmer, his wife, three children and a pig. The pig has three medals around his neck and a wooden leg. The salesman cannot help but comment: “I see there is a pig joining us for dinner”.
“Yes,” says the farmer, “this is a very special pig. See those three medals around his neck? You might like to know how he got them.”
“Oh, yes I would,” said the salesman.
“Well, one day our oldest son fell in the pond and was drowning. That pig dived into the pond, swam to our boy, and pulled him back to safety. He got the first medal for saving our boy’s life.
He got the second medal when a fire accidentally lit up the barn, trapping our daughter inside. The pig ran through the flames and literally pushed our girl outside.
A while later, our youngest boy was cornered in the paddock by an angry bull. That pig squirmed under the fence grabbed the bull by the tail and held him while our son escaped. He got the third medal for that.”
The salesman, having listened carefully, said, “I can see that the pig is special, and I can understand why he received the medals and gets to eat at the table. But, tell me, how did he get the wooden leg?”
The farmer smiled and said, “Well sir, a pig like that, you don’t eat him all at once.”
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