Missive #213

20. BITING YOUR OWN EAR

A wife dragged her husband into Nasruddin’s courtroom.

“He bit my ear!” she shouted.

“You bit your own ear!” the husband shouted back at her.

“Impossible!” the wife replied. “Nobody can bite their own ear.”

Nasruddin called for a recess and went into his chambers. He tried to bite his own ear, but only succeeded in falling down and bruising his forehead.

Nasruddin returned to the courtroom. “Check the wife: does she have bruises on her forehead?”

There were no bruises.

“I therefore conclude the wife did not bite her own ear,” said Nasruddin. “The husband is guilty as charged.”

This Tale is from “Tiny Tales of Nasruddin” by Laura Gibbs. The book is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. © 2019-2022 Laura Gibbs.

Between the period of initial colonial settlement and the American Revolution, a period of over 70 years, England and France fought four wars for control of the North American continent. This book focuses on these successive wars.
This is the third book in the Mainstream In America series which is very readable history. Some of the authors are from academia but so far the books have avoided the academic cant. Recommended.Edward Hamilton has reconstructed this amazing story of wilderness, forts and weapons. He takes the reader through each successive war with a surgeon’s precision, utilizing some of the best maps ever constructed to detail the magnitude of the European engagement being fought on North American soil. Vital, thrilling and fascinating, the French and Indian Wars culminated an age old rivalry and set the stage for years to come. In the long view, this excellent account shows us exactly why we speak English today instead of French. — Customer review @ Amazon

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