Once a farmer and his friend were sitting at a battered kitchen table. The farmer said, "It's time ofr hte mule's lesson." Out they went into the yard. The farmer picked up a thick tree branch lying on the ground. He walded up to the mule and hit it over the head so hard the branch shattered. The mule staggered. His friedn's jaw dropped. The friedn said, "You can's teach a mule a lesson like that." "That wasn't the lesson," relied the farmer, "that was just to get his attention."
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