Pass It On

Two experienced fishermen went ice-fishing. They chopped holes in the ice, put worms on their hooks, dropped their lines into the water and, three hours later, they had caught nothing. Then, a boy came along with his fishing gear. He cut a hole in the ice midway between the two fishermen, put a worm on his hook, dropped his line into the water and, immediately, he caught a fish. He repeated the process, over-and-over again, until he soon had a catch of a dozen fish. The two fishermen watched and were flabbergasted. Finally, one of them approached the lad and said, “Young man, we’ve been here for more than three hours and haven’t caught a single fish. You’ve caught at least a dozen in just a few minutes. What’s your secret?” The boy mumbled an answer, but the man didn’t catch a word of it. Then he noticed a large bulge in the boy’s left cheek. “Take the bubble gum out of your mouth so…