MARY, OUR MOTHER

CHAPTER XIII: TWO HEARTS OF WIT & WISDOM

On the lighter side:
Once upon a time there took place this very important Melon-Eating Contest. A top prize of $3,500 (35 - $100.-- bills) will be awarded to the winner.
The stack of money was lying there on the table--on the ready--. The judges very formal, very serious, very stern supervised the entire proceedings, while the contestants eating melons, till they were blue in the face, dropping out of the contest one by one, as they couldn't eat any more.
Finally there were just two men left--both of them on the heavy side: 250 lbs. plus--looking at each other, wondering who will die first, considering all that they ate.
Presently one of the last contestants whispered to his spouse, sitting along side of him, urging him on just to take another bite, the heavyweight admitted to his mate: "If I eat another bite, I'll die."
One of the judges, very disturbed, cried out:
"Unfair--you are not permitted to convey secrets to anyone during this contest--! You must tell us, my dear woman, what the contestant said to you."
The little lady--after a long pause--with a straight face answered:
"My husband said, he wants some ice-cream on top of the melon." The other remaining contestant exclaimed: "I give up--you win--I quit!"
As the fine bundle of money was placed before the heavy-weight-champion, he said: "Could anyone change a hundred dollar bill--two fifties will do."
He divided the money into two neat stacks of $1,750.-- each and told the amazed congregation, while someone came running with a dish of vanilla ice-cream:
"I'll have to take a rain-check on this ice-cream. I'll eat no more--so then actually we both stopped eating at the same time--it's a dead heat. It is therefore right and just that we divide the purse!"
His loving wife was ready to crown him.
Yes, TRUTH must be served!

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