A man’s car suddenly stopped dead when he was driving down the middle of a country lane. He stepped out of the car and looked inside the bonnet to see if he could fix it. After a while a horse ambled up beside him, had a look at the car and said, “Your trouble is probably in the carburettor.”

The man was so amazed that he ran down the road until he met the farmer walking towards him. He stopped the farmer and told him exactly what had happened.

“Did the horse have a white patch in the middle of his forehead?” asked the farmer.

“Yes, yes!” cried the motorist.

“Don’t pay any attention, then,’ said the farmer, ‘that was only old Dobbin and he doesn’t know a thing about cars.”