A group from Chicago spent a weekend gambling
at the blackjack tables in Las Vegas. One of the men on that trip won
$100,000. He didn't want anyone to know about it, so he decided not
to return with the others, but took a later plane home -- arriving back
3 a.m. He immediately went out to the backyard of his house, dug a hole
and planted the money in it. The following morning he walked outside
and found only an empty hole. He noticed footsteps leading from the
hole to the house next door, which was owned by a deaf-mute. On the
same street lived a professor who understood sign language and was a
friend of the deaf man. Grabbing his pistol, the enraged man went to
awaken the professor and dragged him to the deaf man's house.
" You tell this guy that if he doesn't give me back my $100,000 I'm going
to kill him!" he screamed at the professor. The professor conveyed the message
to his friend, and his friend repliedin sign language, "I hid it in my
backyard, underneath the cherrytree."
The professor turned to the man with the gun and said, "He's not going to
tell you. He said he'd rather die first."
  
|
