How Yodelling was Invented
 
Back in the olden days, a man was travelling
through Switzerland.
Nightfall was rapidly approaching, and the
man had nowhere to sleep.  He went up to a
farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could
spend the night.

The farmer told him that it would be all
right, and that he could sleep in the barn.
The man went into the barn to bed down and
the farmer went back into the house.

The farmer's daughter came down from upstairs
and asked the farmer, "Who was that man going
into the barn?"

"That's some fellow travelling through,"
answered the farmer.  "He needed a place to
stay for the night, so I said that he could
sleep in the barn."

The daughter then asked the farmer, "Did you
offer the man anything to eat?"

"Gee, no, I didn't," the farmer answered.

The daughter said, "Well, I'm going to take
him some food."

She went into the kitchen, prepared a plate
of food and then took it out to the barn.
The daughter was in the barn for an hour
before returning to the house.

When she came back in, her clothes were all
dishevelled and buttoned up wrong, and she
had several strands of straw tangled up in
her long blonde hair.  She immediately went
up the stairs to her bedroom and went to
sleep.

A little later, the farmer's wife came down
and asked the farmer why their daughter went
to bed so early.

"I don't know," said the farmer.  "I told a
man that he could sleep in the barn and our
daughter took him some food."

"Oh," replied the wife.  "Well, did you offer
the man anything to drink?"

"Umm, no, I didn't,"  said the farmer.

The wife then said, "I'm going to take
something out there for him to drink."

The wife went to the cellar, got a bottle of
wine, then went out to the barn.  She did not
return for over an hour, and when she came
back into the house, her clothes were also
messed up and she had straw twisted into her
blonde hair.  She went straight up the
stairs and into bed.

The next morning at sunrise, the man in the
barn got up and continued on his journey,
waving to the farmer as he left the farm.

A few hours later, the daughter woke up and
came rushing downstairs.  She went right out
to the barn, only to find it empty.  She ran
back into the house.  "Where's the man from
the barn?" she eagerly asked the farmer.

Her father answered, "He left several hours ago."

"What?" she cried. "He left without saying
good bye?  After all we had together?  I mean,
last night he made such passionate love to me!"

"What?" shouted the father. "He took advantage
of you?"

The farmer ran out into the front yard looking
for the man but by now the man was halfway up
the side of the mountain.  The farmer screamed
up at him, "I'm gonna get you!  You had sex
with my daughter!"

The man looked back down from the mountainside,
cupped his hands next to his mouth and yelled
out..............

 
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"I laid the old laDEE, too!"