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The Three Legged Pig

 

An insurance salesman received a call from a local farmer, who told him he needed to insure a brand new farmhouse right away, so he quickly put together some quotes and necessary forms to close the deal. When he drove up to the house and walked up on the porch, he noticed an adorable little pig lying on one end of the porch. Before he could walk over to get a good look at the pig, the farmer answered the door and led the salesman to the kitchen table, where they commenced to do business. A contract was finalized and the salesman was putting his paperwork back in his briefcase when the farmer's wife opened the front door and the little pig walked in. To the salesman's horror, he saw that it was walking on a wooden leg.

"Oh, my goodness. What happened to the little three-legged pig? Was he born that way?" he asked.

"No, he had all four legs when he was born."

"What happened to his little leg?"

"We called you out here for a new policy because we needed insurance on our new farmhouse. We had to build it after our old one burned down to the ground," the farmer's wife explained.

"Did he lose his leg in the fire?"

"Oh, no - but he did wake us up when the fire started by squealizing and raising so much cain that nobody could sleep through the noise and that gave us enough time to get out. That little pig saved our lives."

"Wow! That is quite a story," the salesman commented.

"Oh, this is a truly remarkable pig," the farmer said. "He saved my life last year when I was working in the lower 40 acres field and my big John Deere tractor flipped over and trapped me under it. I could barely breath and was losing hope, knowing I couldn't last long in that situation. That little feller came running up and started digging up the dirt around the area. He dug and dug as fast as he could and finally dug it up enough that the dirt got loose enough for me to be able to crawl out."

"Did he hurt his little leg saving your life?"

"Oh, no. That's not what happened," the farmed responded.

"What in the world happened to his leg?"

"Well, when you have a great little pig like that, you don't eat him all at once."

- submitted by Firstmate -