National Adult Literacy Database

August 10, 1998

The story this week was written by Alice Ma, from Hamilton, Ontario. Alice is an English as a Second Language (ESL) Student in the Hamilton Board of Education class.

Joke

by Alice Ma

There was once a stupid person in a Chinese town. Once when he was very hungry, then he went to buy a pie and he ate one and then another one. When he had eaten five pies, he didn't feel full, so he ate one more pie. After he finished eating, he felt very full. He said to everybody, "if I had known the sixth pie was so filling, I wouldn't have eaten the first five."

[This story was taken with permission from Newsline, the newsletter of the Adult Basic Education Association of Hamilton-Wentworth, September 1997.]