In an article in Reader’s Digest, the following story was told:

High Troy, a well-known artist, was a smart aleck who spent most of his life perpetrating frauds for the joy of it.

“One winter in the 1920s, while a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, N. Y., Troy got hold of a hideous old wastebasket with a real rhinoceros foot as a base. He filled it with metal weights and tied 30 feet of clothesline to either side. Late one night he and a friend caried it out onto campus, suspended between them. Every few feet they would lower it into the snow, their own footprints so far away as to raise no suspicions.

The next morning someone noticed the prints and summoned learned professors. Excitedly, they followed the rhinoceros tracks. The trail led out onto the ice covering Beebe Lake, which connected to the school’s source of drinking water. There the tracks ended in a gigantic hole.

It is said that half the population of Cornell stopped drinking tap water. Those who continued to drink it swore it tasted like rhinoceros.”

Its easy to be deceived. Keep your eyes on Jesus and not on what is getting all the attention.

Tags: deception, humor, rhinoceros