[Rhodes22-list] Indian Winter

[Brad Haslett]

Elle,

B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l-!

Brad

On Jan 13, 2008 3:51 PM, elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  INDIAN WINTER
>
>  It was already late fall and the Indians on a remote
>  reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if
>  the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
>  Since he was a chief in a modern society he had
>  never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at
>  the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going
>  to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he
>  told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to
>  be cold and that the members of the village should
>  collect firewood to be prepared.
>
>  Being a practical leader, after several days he got
>  an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the
>  National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming
>  winter going to be cold?"
>
>  "It looks like this winter is going to be quite
>  cold," the meteorologist at the weather service
>  responded. So the chief went back to his people and
>  told them to collect even more firewood in order to
>  be prepared.
>
>  A week later he called the National Weather Service
>  again. "Does it sti ll look like it is going to be a
>  very cold winter?"
>
>  "Yes," the man at National Weather Service again
>  replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter." The
>  chief again went back to his people and ordered them
>  to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
>
>  Two weeks later the chief called the National
>  Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that
>  the winter is going to be very cold?"
>
>  "Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more
>  and more like it is going to be one of the coldest
>  winters we've ever seen."
>
>  "How can you be so sure?" the chief asked.
>
>  The weatherman replied, "The Indians are collecting
>  firewood like crazy."
>
>  Always remember this whenever you get advice from a
>  government official.
>
>
> We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.
>
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