Young Gulls, for an Porpoise

At the local zoological park, there worked a very old keeper. He had worked at the zoo for so long, he had only two responsibilites. The first was to care for the zoo's male lion.

This lion was so magnificent, the Governor had proclaimed it the state lion. The second was to care for the zoo's porpoise. This porpoise had lived at the zoo for years. In fact, nobody knew exactly how old the porpoise was, and everyone simply called it the immortal porpoise.

It was thought that the secret to the porpoise's long life was its daily diet of young gulls, fed to it by the zookeeper. Well, one day the keeper came into work and went down to the dock to collect the gulls to feed the porpoise.

At the dock, he saw the lion (who had escaped from his cage during the night) stretched out across the dock, asleep. Panicking slightly, the zookeeper decided to creep quietly across the lion, get the gulls, feed the porpoise and then get help to capture the lion.

So, he carefully stepped over the lion and filled his bucket full of the young gulls. As he carefully crossed back over the lion.....he was arrested!!!! He was caught crossing the state lion, with young gulls, for an immortal porpoise!!