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The Boy who cried Cow Patty

Once upon a time there was a boy who always cried “Cow patty!” He thought this was a great joke.

If someone stepped in mud, the boy would point to their shoe and yell, “Cow patty!” If someone had a spot on their shirt, the boy would yell, “Cow patty!” Whenever anyone smelled a bad smell, the boy would yell, “Cow patty!”

It didn’t take long for the whole town to get sick of the boy who was always yelling “Cow patty!”

One day the boy took a shortcut behind Mr. Smith’s barn. The boy didn’t know it, but Mr. Smith had just shoveled out his cow barn. So when the boy jumped over the fence without looking, he landed in one gigantic, steaming, fresh cow patty.

The boy sunk up to his neck and kept sinking.

He knew that in another moment he would be sunk.

So he yelled with all his might, “Fire! Fire! Fire!”

The firemen came rushing to the rescue and found the boy up to his neck in cow patty.

“I don’t see any fire,” said a fireman. “What are you doing yelling ‘Fire’?”

“Well,” said the boy, “Nobody would have come if I yelled ‘Cow Patty!’”

The End

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