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Earl and Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News newspaper in
Starkville, Mississippi, and bought a mule for $100. The farmer agreed
to deliver the mule the next day.

The next morning the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, fellows, I have
some bad news, the mule died last night."

Earl and Leroy replied, "Well, then just give us our money back."

The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."

They said, "OK then, just bring us the dead mule."

The farmer asked, "What in the world ya'll gonna do with a dead mule?"

Leroy said, "We gonna raffle him off."

The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead mule!"

Earl said, "We shor can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's dead!

A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Earl and Leroy at the Piggly
Wiggly grocery store and asked "What'd you fellers ever do with that
dead mule?"

They said,"We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do."

Leroy said,"Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made
us a profit of $898."

The farmer said,"Gol dern, didn't anyone complain?"

Earl said, "Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two
dollars back."

Earl and Leroy now work for the gub'ment. They're both overseein' the
Stimulus Program.

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