Lazy Bull

Millard Putzhand has what we call a lazy bull. The bull hasn't served any cows in the last couple of years. All these ads on TV about men and women finding happiness, in that area, just from a pill got Millard's attention. He was telling me he may go ahead and order something for old Ferdy. He started calling him that after Ferdinand the Bull in that old Disney film where the bull was put out to pasture when he refused to fight and just sat around smelling flowers. Millard was a wannabe engineer and actually went one year to State College. It was Calculus that stopped him, so he dropped out and took over the family farm. Anyway, Millard got out his old slide rule and calculated the cost for the bull's proper dose of the drug. I think he may be wrong, but he came up with over a thousand dollars for a single dose. He said he would pay that much if he knew it would work. If his owner doesn't come up with a better solution it looks like old Ferdy will be shipped off to the meat plant; no flower smelling for him.

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