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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:45:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Howard Hastings <hhasting-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Re: Lack of List Activity??



> Reg Lilly wrote:
> > 
> > This reminds me of the boy who, stacking wood on the wood pile, found himself
> > astride a nest of ground wasps.  He was stung terribly, and retreated to the
> > house.  Several days later, when it came time to stack more wood, he went back to
> > the woodpile with a long reed, which he angrily thrust down the hole, partly to
> > see if the wasps were still there, partly to kill a few if they were and he were
> > lucky.  There are several endings to this story, all entirely predictable.

But in this case, wouldn't it be a boy who was new to the woodpile?

hh
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