It's Gonna Be A Cold One

It was October, and the Indians on a remote reservation asked their
new
chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. The chief,
unfortunately, had never been taught the old secrets, and when he
looked
at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like. So
to
be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the coming winter was,
indeed, going to be cold, and that the members of the village should
begin collecting all the firewood they could get their hands on.

After several days, the chief, being a practical man, got an idea. He
went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and
asked,
"Is the coming winter going to be cold?"

"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the
meteorologist
at the weather service responded. So the chief went back to his
people
and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.

A week later he called the National Weather Service again. "Does it
still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?," he asked.

"Yes," the man at NWS again replied, "it's going to be a very cold
winter."

The chief again ordered his people to collect every scrap of firewood
they could find, and two weeks later again called the weather guys.

"Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"

"Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it is
going to be one of the coldest winters ever."

"How can you be so sure?," the chief asked.

**The weatherman replied, "Because the Indians have been collecting
firewood like crazy since October!"*