Horse

This story is true.

In my youth I remember well a TV show called "The School Around the Corner". The host was Paddy Crosbie and the idea behind the show was to gather a bunch of kids from a school and interview them individually. Now the bold Paddy was a real Dubliner and sometimes the country kids confused him. One such was a young lad who when asked for a "funny incident" described how his father, a farmer, had a horse who got sick and had to be put down. Apparently, the farmer first dug the horse's grave then shoved the poor animal in and shot it. Paddy Crosbie was aghast at this story and asked "you mean he shot the poor horse in the hole?". "No Sir", replied the child, unabashed, "he shot it in the head".