[Dave]

While out walking in the country, a man comes across a hole. Curious, he finds a small pebble and tosses it into the hole. He hears no sound, so picks up a slightly bigger one and throws that into the blackness. Again, he hears no sound. He picks up an even bigger rock, throws it into the hole, and again listens at the opening for some sound. Again, there is only silence.

Looking around for something really big to chuck into the apparently bottomless pit, he finds a huge boulder and hurls it into the hole. As he is kneeling at the side of the hole waiting for some sound, a goat comes charging down the road towards him. He manages to scramble out of the way in the nick of time, and the goat falls down into the black hole.

A few moments later, a farmer comes across the hill and approaches the man. ‘Have you seen a goat around here?’ the farmer asks, and the man, somewhat embarrassed that the goat has fallen down the hole while he was right next to it, answers that he hasn’t. ‘That’s odd,’ says the farmer, ‘It must be around here somewhere because I left it tied to an enormous boulder.’

[Warspite]

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