Fire Engine

A fireman is polishing his fire engine outside the fire station

when he notices a little girl next door in a little red cart with

little ladders hung on the side and garden hose tightly

coiled in the middle. The little girl is wearing a fireman's helmet and has the cart tied to a dog and a cat.

The firefighter walks over to take a closer look, 'That's a

lovely fire engine,' he says admiringly. 'Thanks,' says the little

girl.

The fireman looks closer and notices the little girl has tied one

of the cart's strings to the dog's collar and one to the

cat's testicles.

'Little colleague,' says the firefighter, 'I don't want to tell you how to run your fire engine, but if you were to tie that rope around the cats collar, I think you could probably go a lot faster.'

The little girl pauses for a moment, looks at the wagon, at the dog, at the cat, then shyly looks into the fireman's eyes and says

"You're probably right, but then I wouldn't have a siren would I?"