Object: A shovel

Boys and girls: Comedian Jerry Clower tells a silly story about Uncle Versie Ledbetter who had a mule named Della. One day Della fell in a cistern Uncle Versie thought he had covered up, but hadn't. Do you know what a cistern is? It's a big hole for catching rainwater. Old Della stumbled and fell down in that thing about thirty feet. Well, Uncle Versie had a problem. There was his best mule down at the bottom of that cistern and no way he could get the mule out of there…