The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 41, October 12, 2003, Article 12

SO THIS BUFFALO WALKS INTO A BAR...

  Submitted by Dick Johnson:

  A buffalo with only three legs walks into a coin shop. He sees
  a 3-Legged Buffalo Nickel in the dealer's case of coins for
  sale. "I posed for that," boasted the buffalo.

  "No you didn't," said the coin dealer, "it was created by
  sculptor Fraser. The missing leg was due to a filled die in
  the press at the Denver Mint."

  "Denver has a Mint?" asks the buffalo.

  "Ever since 1906!" exclaimed the coin dealer.

  "Where is it?" asked the buffalo, and the dealer gives the
  address to the buffalo.

  A month later the buffalo shows up at what he thinks is the
  Denver Mint having walked all the way on his three legs.
  But he didn't remember the exact address and had showed
  up instead at a saloon down the street.

  "I lost a leg here in 1937," the buffalo told the saloon keeper,
  "I want it back."  The buffalo raises the stump of his front leg.

  The saloon keeper paused for a minute, then walked away.
  He came back with a platter of deep fried meat.

  "Here," said the saloon keeper, "we don't have your leg, but
  I see you lost your wings as well!"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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