A Cow from Egypt

The only cow in a small town in Lebanon stopped giving milk.
The town folk found they could buy a cow in Egypt quite cheaply. Theybrought the cow from Egypt and it was wonderful, produced lots of milk
every day and everyone was happy.
They bought a bull to mate with the cow to get more cows, so they'dnever have to worry about their milk supply again. They put the bull inthe pasture with the cow but whenever the bull tried to mount the cow,the cow would move away. No matter what approach the bull tried, thecow would move away from the bull and he was never able to do the deed.
The people were very upset and decided to go to the wise old Vet totell him what was happening and ask his advice.

"Whenever the bull tries to mount our cow, she moves away. If heapproaches from the back, she moves forward. When he approaches her
from the front, she backs off. If he attempts from the one side, shewalks away to the other side."

The Vet rubbed his chin thoughtfully and pondered this before asking,

"Did you by chance, buy this cow in Egypt ?"

The people were dumbfounded, since no one had ever mentioned that theyhad brought the cow over from Egypt .

"You are truly a wise Vet," they said. "How did you know we got the cow from Egypt ?

The Vet replied with a distant look in his eye:

"My wife is from Egypt "

Sent by U Banerjee, NP