"Where have you been?" asked his wife.
"I went out in the woods to check the still." Replied the mountain man, "and a giant bear stepped out in front of me. I took off running ahead of him and finally lost him. I never ran so fast in my life."
"But that was a week ago." Said the wife. "Where have you been since?"
The mountain man collapsed in a chair. "Walking back."
離開家一個星期后,那個登山人搖搖晃晃地回到了家,他的衣服也破了,鞋底也磨薄了,他本人更是疲憊不堪的樣子。
“你到哪兒去了?”老婆問。
“那天我到森林里去檢查有無無非法釀酒的地方,”登山人敘述著,“忽然一只大熊出現(xiàn)在我的面前,我拔腿就跑,熊就在后面追,好不容易才把它甩掉,我這輩子從來沒有跑這么快。”
“可是那是一周前的事了,”他老婆說:“后來你到哪兒去了?”
登山人癱在在椅子上說:“往回走啊!”