Communication

A bank robber who operated along the Texas border around the turn of the century was so successful in his forays that the Texas Rangers put a whole extra posse along the Rio Grande to try and stop him. Late one afternoon, one of the special Rangers saw the man stealthily slipping across the river, and trailed him at a discreet distance as he returned to his home village. The ranger watched as the criminal mingled with the people in the square around the town well and then went into his favorite cantina to relax. The ranger slipped in, put his pistol to the bandit’s head, and said, “I know who you are, and I have come to get back all the money that you’ve stolen from the banks in Texas. Unless you give it to me, I am going to blow your brains out.” There was one fatal difficulty, however. The robber did not speak English and the Texas Ranger was not versed in…