Age Is Misleading


          An  Irishman went to London for a visit to the zoo.  While there,
          he saw a man with an elephant  act.  The man claimed the elephant
          could look  at a person and tell  that person's age. The Irishman
          was  very skeptical and said  so, in no  uncertain terms. The man
          had the elephant look at a small boy and the elephant stamped its
          foot 9 times.   "Is that right?" he asked the  boy. "Oh yes." the
          boy said. The Irishman  was very loud, in his not  believing that
          this  was true. The  man asked the  elephant to tell  the ages of
          several people, and  each time the elephant stamped  his foot and
          the people  said he was correct. The Irishman got even louder and
          more abusive toward  the man.  Finally  the man could take  it no
          longer and wagered  the Irishman that the elephant  could look at
          him and tell him his age.  The Irishman took him up on the wager.
          The  elephant looked real  close at the  Irishman, turned around,
          raised his  tail and cut  wind like you wouldn't  believe, turned
          back around and  stomped his foot twice.  Where upon the Irishman
          stumbled back  and with a sound  of disbelief in his  voice cried
          "BeGabbers, He's Right...Farty-two!"