was lost and low on food. No other humans had
been seen for days... and then they saw an old Jewish
Rabbi, 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, I tink so, "the old man said, "But I vouldn't go up
dat hill, und down de udder side. Somevun tole me
you'd run into a big bacon tree."
"A bacon tree?" asked the wagon train leader.
"Yah, ah bacon tree. Vould I lie? ... Trust me, I
vouldn't go dere."
The leader goes back and tells his people what
the Rabbi said. "So why did he say not to go there?"
some pioneers asked.
"Oh, you know those Jewish people -- they don't
eat bacon."
So the wagon train goes up the hill and down the
other side. Suddenly, Indians are attacking from
everywhere and they massacre all except the
leader who manages to escape back to the old
Jewish man.
The near-dead man starts shouting, "You fool!
You sent us to our deaths! We followed your
instructions, but there was no bacon tree, just
hundreds of Indians, who killed everyone but me."
The old Jewish man holds up his hand and says, "Oy.....
vait a minute."
He then gets out an English-Yiddish
dictionary, and begins thumbing through.
"Oy Gevalt, I make myself such ah big mishtake!
It vuzn't a bacon tree. It vuz a ham bush!"
-Ben
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