An older man had a young and attractive wife who was always pregnant. Following the birth of their twentieth child, the husband decided it wasnt fair keeping her pregnant all the time.

After considerable soul-searching, he began to consider committing suicide as a possible solution.

He went down into the basement, tied a rope around a ceiling rafter, stood on a chair, tied the other end of the rope around his neck and got ready to jump off and hang himself.

Then he paused, untied the rope, stepped down and said, Wait a minute … I could be hanging an innocent man!