THE FEMALE

A certain lawyer was quite wealthy and had a summerhouse in the country
where he retreated for several weeks every year. Each summer, the lawyer would
invite a different friend of his (no, that's not the punch line) to spend a week
or two at this home, which happened to be in a backwoods. On one particular
occasion, he invited a Czechoslovakian friend to stay with him. The friend,
eager to get a freebee off of the lawyer, agreed. They had a splendid time in
the country -- rising early and living in the great outdoors. Early one morning,
the lawyer and his Czechoslovakian companion went out to pick berries for their
morning breakfast. As they went around the berry patch, gathering blueberries
and raspberries in tremendous quantities, along came two huge Bears -- a large
male and a smaller female. The lawyer, seeing the two bears and sensing danger,
immediately dashed for cover. His friend, however, being ignorant of nature, was
not so lucky. The male bear charged the paralyzed Czechoslovakian, and then
swallowed him whole. The lawyer, instilled with fright, rushed back to his car
and sped into town to get the local sheriff. The sheriff, upon hearing the
lawyer's unsettling story, grabbed his rifle and dashed back to the berry patch
with the lawyer following closely behind. Sure enough, the two bears were still
there. "He's in THAT one!� cried the lawyer, pointing to the large male bear,
all the while visions of lawsuits from his friend's family lagged in the back of
his mind. He just had to save his friend. The sheriff looked at the two bears,
and without batting an eye, leveled his rifle, took careful aim, and SHOT THE
FEMALE. "What did you do that for!� exclaimed the lawyer, "I said he was in the
other one!" "Exactly," replied the sheriff, "Would YOU believe a lawyer who told
you the Czech was in the male?"