Tale 163 told by Taleswapper on 01.08.2002
Mysterious Statue

I was sittin' at the bar last night and this odd, scrawny-lookin fellow walks
in carrying some tools and mortar.  He looked in dire need of a beer, so I
bought one and took it to his table.  He looks up at me with this curious
expression and proceeds to tell me a strange tale indeed.

"I be a handy-man, ya see, and I goes from town to town repairing this and
that.  Well I'm a walkin' by this big mansion, ya see, that really did need 
a fixin' on the roof.  So I gets the job and goes up there.  I'm not even a
halfway finished when I back up into this statue that is up on the rooftop!
Why's it there, I don't know, but ya see, I knocked it over and broke a wing
off of it.  I hurry's up and finishes me work for the day.  This mornin' I 
buys this mortar and head back up to fix what I broke, and lawd, it was a 
fixed already!  You couldn' even see where it had been a broken.  'Aint that 
an odd thing!