One young fellow got all tangled up as he was preaching from the parable of the good Samaritan, or so the story goes, and he said: "Once upon a time long ago, a young man went to Jerusalem and he fell among thieves. Thorns sprung up around him and choked him.
"But he went on and met the queen of Sheba and she gave him thirty pieces of silver that she got out of the mouth of a fish. With that the young man bought ten changes of raiment and a foal that he rode into the city as the people put palm branches in his path.
"As he was riding he caught his long hair in a tree and he hanged there forty days and forty nights. Ravens brought him food and he got water from a rock until one night Delilah showed up and cut off his hair where he fell on stony ground and when he got up he went into the highways and the hedges looking for the fields which were white unto harvest.
"When he got back to Jerusalem he saw Jezebel sitting in the top of a sycamore tree and the young man told her to come down. She refused saying that she had just bought five yoke of oxen and must go to prove them.
"At that point the young man took his sling and five smooth stones and knocked Jezebel out of the tree, and he knocked her down seventy times seven times so that great was the fall of her. And of the fragments of her they took up twelve baskets full."
At which point the confused young preacher ended his sermon with the profound question: "Now whose wife will she be in the day of judgment?"
