The Dog and the Physician

  A DOG that had seen a Physician attending the burial of a wealthy
patient, said: "When do you expect to dig it up?"

  "Why should I dig it up?" the Physician asked.

  "When I bury a bone," said the Dog, "it is with an intention to
uncover¹ it later and pick it."

  "The bones that I bury," said the Physician, "are those that I can
no longer pick."