Subject: happy day after father's day
From: captain (captain@armadillo.net)
Date: Mon Jun 21 1999 - 05:15:29 CDT
There was once an order of nuns who lived deep in the Congo jungle
missioning to the natives. This order was listed with the Vatican as the
Co-nuns. Having spent years there in the jungle, they made great headway
in converting the natives to Christianity. But they in turn also learned
the customs and adopted many of the habits of the natives.
They lived in the trees in modest houses made from vines and deadwood from
the jungle floor. They cooked and ate myriad life forms including insects
and reptiles. They learned to forrage for nuts and berries and even to
swing from treehouse to treehouse on vines.
Now, every year the men and women from miles around would gather for a
great feast. Much revelry took place, with eating, drinking, vine swinging
contests, dancing and endless African music which took the form of great
drum circles.
The nuns were all classically trained in the arts & music and were very
excited about this wonderful music but due to an old eclisiastical law they
were precluded from performing in public.
One year they decided that in order to get around this law they would build
themselves a drum in secret. When the festival was in full swing several
nuns climbed up into a treehouse above the drum circle, where they had
hidden their secret drum, and joyfully joined the rhythmic beating.
Their drum turned out to be the most beautiful sounding drum in the jungle
and one by one the natives stopped their playing to listen, until only the
one drum was playing high up in the trees. The natives were perplexed.
Who would be playing up in the trees instead of down in the circle with
them? and *what* kind of wonderful sounding drum was that???
It was, of course, a...
Co-nun drum
-=> Brian
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