A very wealthy lawyer retreated for several

weeks each year to his summer home in the backwoods of Maine. Every

summer, he would invite one friend or another to stay with him there
for a
week or two.

One summer he invited a Czechoslovakian
friend to visit him. The
friend, happy to get anything free from a
lawyer, eagerly agreed. When the
time came, they spent a wonderful
time, getting up early every morning
and enjoying the great
outdoors.

One morning, as the lawyer and his Czechoslovakian friend were
picking
raspberries and blueberries for their breakfast, they were
approached
by two huge bears–a male and a female.

The
lawyer noticed them in time to run for cover. His friend, however,
was
not so lucky. The male bear reached him and swallowed him
whole.

Seeing this, the lawyer ran back to his Mercedes and raced for the

nearest town to get the local sheriff. The sheriff grabbed his hig
h-powered
rifle and raced back to the berry area with the lawyer.
All the while,
he was plagued by visions of lawsuit from his
friend’s family. He just
had to save his friend.

Luckily, the
bears were still there. “He’s in THAT one!” cried the
lawyer,
pointing to the male.

The sheriff looked at the bears, leveled his gun,
took careful aim, and
shot the female.

“What did you do that
for?!” exclaimed the lawyer, “I said he was in
the other
bear!”

“Exactly,” replied the sheriff. “Would you believe a lawyer who
told
you that the Czech was in the male?”