He….. sold the family cow…. for a little bit of nothing.

You see…….For years, they kept the Chock-Full-O-Nuts Coffee Can filled with the cash they had amassed.  They scrimped.  They saved.   It wasn’t much, but it was theirs.  Last week, he bought a huge box of Sea Monkeys with it.  And for what?  The water got cloudy and the whole lot of them died in 3 days.

She looks like she is being quite understanding.  But inside she is boiling over, seething mad.  See how her knuckles are turning all white and the little veins popping out in her neck?   He senses her indignation.   She thinks to herself, “He’s gotten into another one of those lame-brained, get-rich-quick, schemes.”  And she was right.  “I sent him into town to sell the family cow, and he managed to screw that up to no end.”

Yes, in fact, he had.  He took Milky White,  their old heifer, and traded her for some little bag of dried up beans.  Magical???  Ha!  Magical.   She threw ’em out the back kitchen window.    Now she ambles off to bed.  Grumbling. Sobbing.   And without a single box of Kleenex in the cottage.   Despondent, he packs his bags and heads for Poland, where his cousin Vladimir lives.

Whatever you do….. never throw away your magic.