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11. The Comedian Out-Squeals a Pig
There once was a king who offered a prize
To the best pig-like sound
anyone could devise,
So a well-known comedian there in the place
Stepped up on the stage with a
grin on his face.
The people were laughing before he began,
And they screamed when he
walked like a bow-legged man,
Then he covered his head as he took a big breath
And he squealed like a pig
being tortured to death.
Now there in the crowd stood a hick with a pig
So he hid it inside where his
jacket was big,
And he crawled on the stage and then twisted its ear,
And the sound of that pig was
amazing to hear.
BEGONE!
said the crowd,
you don't need to pretend,
You can't make a pig sound to
save your rear end!
So the hick showed his pig, but the king hollered
NAY!
You lose! That comedian
triumphs today!
MORAL: The heart makes more decisions that the head.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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