Arrow in the Eye
Euric had been a foot solder in the King’s army. But after being struck in the eye by an arrow, he stayed at home all day watching the idiot box.
When the idiot took his lunch break, Euric’s wife came in. “Are you just going to sit there, day after day, watching the idiot box?”
“I’ve got an arrow in the eye! Can’t you see that?!”
“Can’t you take it out?”
“The priest said no, that my soul would leak out.”
His wife thought and thought, and finally came up with a solution. The next day, without a word, she came in with a man who had an arrow stuck in each of his eyes. The man was whistling a happy tune.
Eric got the point. He decided to stop feeling sorry for himself, fired his idiot, and went back to his old hobby of witch-hunting.
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