The son of a North American Indian has come of age, as he is the son of the Chief, he has the privilege of choosing two squaws from his tribe as potential brides. He chooses the two young ladies and as tradition has it, they both give him a challenge that has to be completed before their respective weddings. The first squaw asks her husband to be, to hunt and kill two grizzly bears, so that their hides can be used on their wedding bed, the other squaw, by far the prettiest, asks for a hippopotamus skin for her wedding bed! The young man sets off on his quests, returning after only one moon with the two bear hides, he then ventures out again to complete his second quest, many moons later he returns with a hippopotamus skin. Both, squaws, and, tradition satisfied, the weddings take place nature takes it’s course, and nine months later, the first squaw gives birth to a baby boy, soon after, the second squaw gives birth to twin boys!
Elated yet confused, the young man ponders the events and the resulting children, asking his father to help him understand why things have turned out the way they have, his father is just as perplexed and suggests he speaks with the tribes wisest elder, the elder quietly reflects on the young man’s question, then he leans forward and gives his answer, “Young Brave, the answer is quite simple, ‘the sum of the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaw on the other two hides!’”
2007-07-28
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