A play on words. Look carefully at the last line. Put into reported speech:

A family on holiday were in a village where there was an orchard full of peach trees.

�How old are they?� they asked the farmer.

�We planted them fifteen years ago,� he replied.

�Do you get many peaches from them?�

�Thousands.�

�What do you do with them?�

�We eat what we can and what we can�t we can,� was the answer.

A family on holiday were in a village where there was an orchard full of peach trees. They asked the farmer how old they were. He replied that they had planted them 15 years before. They asked if he got many peaches from them. He replied that they got thousands. The family asked what he did with them. He replied that they ate what they could and what they couldn�t they canned.