Sometime later he turns up at dinner with $200. "Where did you get that money?" His father asks.
"I sold raffle tickets for the donkey" his son replied.
"What?!?" Shouts his father. "You can't sell raffle tickets for a donkey that you know has already died! Weren't people mad?"
"Just the guy who won" said the son, "so I gave him his money back."
But with a raffle, the 'take' can easily exceed the cost of the prizes. So I guess the son would still make out ok.
Sometime later he turns up at dinner with $200. "Where did you get that money?" His father asks.
"I sold raffle tickets for the donkey" his son replied.
"What?!?" Shouts his father. "You can't sell raffle tickets for a donkey that you know has already died! Weren't people mad?"
"Just the guy who won" said the son, "so I gave him his money back."