[bonyhadi]

> > Back in the cowboy days, a westbound wagon train was lost and low on
food.
> > No other humans had been seen for days, when finally they saw an old Jew
> > sitting beneath a tree. The leader rushed to him and said "We're lost
and
> > running out of food. Is there someplace ahead where we can get food"?
> >
> > "Vell," the old Jew said, "I vouldn't go up dat hill und down the other
> > side. Somevun told me you'll run into a big bacon tree."
> >
> > "A bacon tree?" asked the wagon train leader.
> >
> > "Yah, ah bacon tree. Trust me. For nuttin vud I lie."
> >
> > The leader goes back and tell his people that if nothing else,
> > they might be able to find food on the other side on the next ridge.
> >
> > "So why did he say not to go there?" some of the pioneers asked.
> >
> > "Oh, you know those Jews - they don't eat bacon."
> >
> > So the wagon train goes up the hill and down the other side.
> > Suddenly, Indians attack and massacre everyone except the leader,
> > who barely manages to escape back to the old Jew, who's enjoying
> > a "glassel tea."
> >
> > The near-dead man starts shouting, "You fool! You sent us to our deaths!
> > We followed your instruction, but there was no bacon tree! There were
> > hundreds of Indians, who killed everyone."
> >
> > The old Jew holds up his hand and says "Oy, vait a minute." He then gets
> out
> > an old English - Yiddish dictionary, and begins thumbing through it.
> >
> > "Gevalt,
> > I made myself ah big mistake. It vuz not a bacon tree.
> > It vuz a ham bush."
> >