A very elderly couple is celebrating their seventy-fifth wedding anniversary.
The man says to his wife, "Dear, there is something that I must ask you,"...
"It has always bothered me that our tenth child never looked quite like the rest."
"Now, I want to assure you that these seventy-five years have been the most wonderful experience I could have ever hoped for, and your answer could not take all of that away."
"But, I must know, did he have a different father?"
The wife drops her head, unable to look her husband in the eye, and then confesses.
“Yes, he did.”
The old man is very shaken - the reality hitting him harder than he expected.
With a tear in his eye he asks, “Who? Who was he? Who was the father?”
Again the woman drops her head, saying nothing at first as she tries to muster the courage to tell the truth to her husband.
Then, finally she says to him,
“It was you.
--A Man Meets Young Woman On His Way To The Fair With His Pig And Chicken--
A Man was going to the county fair one day with a pig under one arm and a chicken under one arm, and a basket on his head.
He came to a crossroads and didn’t know which way to turn.
While he stood there deciding, a young woman approached him, heading the same direction.
“Please, ma’am, I’m on the way to the county fair. Can you tell me which way to go?”
“Yes,” she replied.
“I’m on my way there, too. We’ll go right down this way about a mile, turn left about a mile and a half, left again about a mile and we’re right there.”
He said, “Wait a minute… down here, turn left and left again? Couldn’t we save a lot of time by talking through these woods?”
She replied, “Yes, we could. But I couldn’t walk through those woods with you. Why… you might try to kiss me!”
“Listen,” he said, “how could I possibly kiss anybody with a pig under one arm, a chicken under one arm and a basket on my head?”
“Well,” she replied,
“you could put that chicken on the ground, turn the basket upside down over the chicken, and I could hold that little bitty ole pig.”
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