ASHAMED

 Six year old Annie returns home from school and says she had her first family

planning lesson at school.  Her mother, very interested, asks, "How did it go?"

 "I nearly died of shame!" she answers. "Sam from over the road, says that the

stork brings babies. Sally next door said you can buy babies at the orphanage.

Pete in my class says you can buy babies at the hospital."

 Her mother answers laughingly, "But that's no reason to be ashamed."

 "No, but I can't tell them that we were so poor that you

and Daddy had to make me yourselves!"