Counting Sheep
My granddaughter, a ‘city girl’, got her first teaching job at a primary school in a rural area where the majority of the pupils lived on farms.
During a maths lesson, she asked the class, “If there were seven sheep in a field and someone left the gate open, and two sheep escaped, how many would be left?”
Young Thomas, a farmer’s son, answered, “None, Miss.”
“Are you sure?” she asked.
“Yes, Miss,” he said. “Sheep are stupid animals; when the first two
went, the other five followed.”
SUBMITTED BY JOHN ROBERTS
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