Generous Offer

"Those Important Names"

Linda had gotten a new job as a reporter for her
local news- paper and she met with the venerable
chief editor on her first day.

"Names, names," the old editor said. "No story
is complete without the names of everyone involved."

Linda assured him she would make him proud
of her reporting abilities. Her first assignment
was to write an article on a local disaster. She
came back a few hours later and filed this report:

Three farms in our area were affected by severe
lightning storms Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Greene reported a fire in their barn.
Michael Arlington said several trees were knocked
down by the violence of the storm. Fred Morse
also reported that three of his cows were struck
by lightning. Their names were Bessie, Elsie and Bertha.

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"Generous Offer"

A newspaper writer, after working for 17 long
years, was finally granted two months leave,
during which time he would be fully paid.
However, he turned down his boss's kind offer.

The boss asked, "Why would you turn down such a generous offer?"

The newspaper writer said there were two reasons.

"Well, what are they?" asked the boss.

"The first," he said, "is that I thought that my taking
such a long leave might affect the newspaper's circulation."

The boss asked him what the other reason was.

"The other reason," replied the writer, "is that I
thought my taking such a long leave might NOT
affect the newspaper's circulation."
Received on Mon Dec 31 02:48:29 2007