Subject: Yak-Another Castaway Story-Yak

From: "Harold E. McKinney" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 04:48:54 -0400

Picking up on the thread that occasionally intertwines this group of hearties---you know, "what if you were lost in the woods and had to make you own iron?", "How would you build up your shop if you only had a hammer, anvil, and forge to start with?", and Tom Vincent's table-turner where it was the woman who was the survival specialist until it came down to the nitty gritty and the the male asks for (what he thinks is) the impossible---; here's another:

This young boy was in a yachting tragedy, lost at sea, and washed ashore on a desert island at the age of nine.  But he was a curious, creative and energetic lad and so survived.  He built a hut and, from materials he could obtain from nature, he lived as handsomely as one could do under the prevailing  conditions.  His main subsistence was fish, which he caught from the lagoon, coconuts, bananas, and other tropical fruit, and clams which he dug from the sand.

He was all alone for 16 long years on his sentence in paradise, far from the shipping lanes, until--one day he spotted a raft drifting to shore.  On this raft was a beautiful 25 year old woman who had suffered a very similar maritime tragedy.

After she had rested and he had prepared her a delicious meal, they talked.  She marveled at his creativity and ingenuity.  She could hardly believe what he was able to do by using tools and utensils created from nature.

Learning that he had been living in solitude since the age of nine, she exclaimed, "Why you've never had sex then!  Have you?"  When he professed ignorance of even the term, she gently led him to the shade of a palm tree, and proceeded to give the lad a remarkable education.

After a full course of study, she turned to him and said, "Now wasn't that nice?"  He replied, "Yes it was the most heavenly thing I ever experienced.  But if, we are going to survive, we must never do it again, ever!"

"For goodness sakes," she exclaimed, "why not? Why not?"

"Well------," he said, "Look what you did to my Clam Digger!"

Mac