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From: jmh@ukc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Speedreading chickens ....
Message-ID: <4734@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 15:23:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 17 15:23:39 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 03:36:52 EST
Reply-To: jmh@ukc.UUCP (Jim Hague)
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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< F E E D    M E >

	The routine at a village library is upset one fine day, when
a chicken walks in. It looks about itself, spots the librarian, and
walks over to her. It then addresses her, thus

		"Bbbbuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkkk!!"

	So the librarian hands the chicken a book, and it wanders away.


	The next day, the chicken returns, and replaces the book it
borrowed the day before. It then seeks out the librarian again, and says

	    "Bbbuuuuuuuuukkkkkk         bbbuuuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkk!"

	So the librarian hands over two books, and the chicken again
wanders away.


	The next day, the chicken brings back the books it borrowed the
day before, and requests

	   "Bbbbuuk   Buuuuuuk Bbbbuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukkkk!"

	The librarian duly hands over three books and the chicken again
wanders away.


	As you may have guessed by now, the chicken returns the following
day and returns the three books. It then asks

	 "Bbuuuk  Bbuuuuk   Bbuuuuuk Bbbuuuuuk BBbbbbuuuuuuuuukKkk!"

and leaves with no less than five books. Sure enough, the next day it
returns all five, and squarks

   "Bbbuuuk  bbbuuuuuk bbbuuuuuuk bbbbuuuuuk bbuuuuuk bbbuuuuuuuuuukkkkkk!"

	The librarian hands over six books, but is understandably puzzled
over what the chicken really does with them ; after all, it would be quite
a chicken that could read six books in one day. So as the chicken leaves,
she follows it, down the road, across a field, through a hedge and to the
edge of a pond.

	The chicken approaches a frog which is sitting by the side of
the pond, and shows it each book in turn .........


	"Red-it    Red-it      Red-it      ..........."



		And a Merry Crimbo to you all


		Jim Hague		..!mcvax!ukc!jmh

"Ten miles he swam. The last three were agony.
 They were over land." - The Goon Show ('Dishonoured')
-- 

		Jim Hague		..!mcvax!ukc!jmh

"Ten miles he swam. The last three were agony.
 They were over land." - The Goon Show ('Dishonoured')