> >>Have you ever wondered where and how yodeling began?
> >>Many years ago a man was traveling through the mountains of Switzerland.
> >>Nightfall was rapidly approaching and he had nowhere to sleep. He went
up
> >>to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the night. The
> >>farmer told him that he could sleep in the barn.
> >>
> >>As the story goes, the farmer's daughter asked her father, "Who is that
> >>man going into the barn?"
> >>
> >>"That fellow traveling through," said the farmer, "needs a place to stay
> >>for the night, so, I told him he could sleep in the barn."
> >>
> >>The daughter said, "Perhaps he is hungry." So she prepared him a plate
of
> >>food for him and then took it out to the barn. About an hour later, the
> >>daughter returned. Her clothing was disheveled and straw in her hair.
> >>Straight up to bed she went.
> >>
> >>The farmer's wife was very observant. She then suggested that perhaps
the
> >>man was thirsty. So she fetched a bottle of wine, took it out to the
barn,
>
> >>and she too did not return for an hour. Her clothing was askew, her
blouse
>
> >>buttoned incorrectly. She also headed straight to bed.
> >>
> >>The next morning at sunrise the man in
> >>the barn got up and continued on his journey, waving to the farmer as he
> >>left.
> >>
> >>When the daughter awoke and learned that the visitor was gone, she broke
> >>into tears. "How could he leave without even saying goodbye," she cried.
> >>"We made such passionate love last night!"
> >>
> >>"What?" shouted the father as he angrily ran out of the house looking
for
> >>the man, who by now was halfway up the mountain. The farmer screamed up
at
>
> >>him, "I'm going to get you! You had censored with my daughter!"
> >>
> >>The man looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hand next to
> >>his mouth, and yelled out....."LAIDTHEOLDLADEETOO"