Smile, please

Mr Basir had a cow. One day he called his guard. He asked him to teach his cow to read. If he could not, he would punish him. His guard had to choice. He accepted the cow at the palm tree behind his house.

In the next morning he went to backyard with a rattan stick. He hit the animal again and again. He kept hitting it while saying “You, Basir, or I”. He did it every morning.

One day Mr Basir called him “why didn’t you give me a report on your duty ?”

“I’m so sorry, Sir I wass so busy teaching the cow to read that I forgot to report,”answered the guard.

“Why did you only say three words to it, you, Basir or I” asked Mr Basir.

“you, first possibility was the cow was wrong. It was too foolish. The second possibility Mr Basir was wrong. You knew that animal cannot read. The third possibility, I was wrong because I could not teach an animal to read”, answered the guard.

“You were right. I take my order back. You can have the cow. You can sell it, keep it o slaughter it, but don’t hit it,” said Mr Basir.