Charles Tidwell's "A Florida Snake Story" reminds me of a somewhat similar
story in which a farmer with a prize sow makes an agreement with a neighboring
farmer (who owns a prize boar) to mate the animals and share the piglets after
they're born. Every morning the farmer loads the sow onto a wheelbarrow and
hauls her over to the other farm, waits for the boar to cover her, and then
hauls her back home expecting a litter of piglets the next day. This goes on
for some time and the farmer is getting discouraged. This particular morning
he calls down to his wife "Beckie, is that damned sow pregnant yet?" and his
wife calls back "No, but she's sitting in the wheelbarrow waiting for ya."