Two sisters, one blonde and one brunette, inherit the family ranch.
Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble.
In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to
purchase a bull so that they can breed their own stock.

The brunette balances their checkbook, then takes their last $600
dollars out west to another ranch where a man has a prize bull for
sale.

Upon leaving, she tells her sister, “When I get there, if I decide to
buy the bull, I’ll contact you to drive out after me and haul it home.”

The brunette arrives at the man’s ranch, inspects the bull, and decides
she does want to buy it. The man tells her that he can sell it for
$599,
no less.  After paying him, she drives to the nearest town to send her
sister a telegram to tell her the news.


She walks into the telegraph office, and says, “I want to send a
telegram to my sister telling her that I’ve bought a bull for our
ranch.
I need her to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here
so we can haul it home.”

The telegraph operator explains that he’ll be glad to help her, then
adds, “It’s just 99 cents a word.”

Well, after paying for the bull, the brunette only has $1 left. She
realizes that she’ll only be able to send her sister one word.

After thinking for a few minutes, she nods, and says, “I want you to
send her the word, ‘comfortable.'”

The telegraph operator shakes his head. “How is she ever going to know
that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pickup truck and drive
out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her the word,
‘comfortable’?”

The brunette explains, “My sister’s blonde.”

“She’ll read it very slow.”