Three cowboys had been riding the range since early in
the morning. One of them was a member of the Navajo Nation. Being busy
with herding stray cattle all day, there had been no time for the
three of them to eat. Toward the end of the day, two of the cowboys
started talking about how hungry they were and about the huge meals
they were going to eat when they reached town. When one of the cowboys
asked the Navajo if he was also hungry, he just shrugged his shoulders
and said, "No."
Later that evening, after they had arrived in town, all three ordered large steak dinners. As the Navajo proceeded to eat everything in sight with great gusto, one of his friends reminded him that less than an hour earlier he had told them that he was not hungry. "Not wise to be hungry then," he replied. "No food."
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