Who Is The Clever One Then?

** The prisoner Solly is serving time in Wandsworth prison for a securities fraud. Even so, he is still loved by his father Maurice. One day, Maurice writes Solly a letter: - “My darling Solly, It looks like I won't be able to plant anything in the garden this year. I am growing too old to do any digging without your help. Looking forward to your early release. Love from your Dad” Solly replies: - “Dearest Dad Please don't dig up the garden - that's where I hid the money and the securities. Be patient. Wait until I get out. Love as always Solly” At 4am in the morning, the police show up at Maurice’s house and dig up the entire garden. Two days later, Maurice receives another letter from Solly: - “Dearest Dad, Now the garden has been dug over, you can start to plant your garden. It’s the best I could do from here. Your devoted son Solly” ** How did you do that? Moishe the farmer had made out a Will that stipulated how his prize cows would be shared out to his 3 sons on his death. He decided that half the cows should go to his eldest son, one third to his second son and one ninth to his youngest son. He though this was fair. Some years later he died and his sons knew that there were 17 cows. But they just couldn’t divide them according to their father’s wishes. So they had to call in the learned Rabbi. After much thought, the Rabbi went away and returned with one of his own cows, making 18 cows. Then the Rabbi gave the oldest son 9 cows, the second son got 6 cows and the youngest 2 cows. There was still one cow left over, so the Rabbi took his cow back home with him. Tags:prisoner,rabbi

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