1359 Licked Chicken

Once upon a time, there were a bunch of chickens. Chickens are pretty good at producing things, like eggs and stuff, but they’re not known for their depth of intellect. And they scare easy.
So when word came down about some hawks coming to kill and eat them the chickens were in dire straits. Fortunately for them, a nice fox came along and they very happily handed over the henhouse to him. Little did they suspect he was the one who started the hawk rumor, but hey, they were chickens.
The fox built up the henhouse pretty good. There were certainly more places to lay eggs. And more comfortable too. Funny, they seemed to lose an egg now and then, but after all it was now a pretty big henhouse, even if the walls seemed a little flimsy, more like a house of cards, so it was pretty easy to misplace an egg.
The fox had a solution for that too. Let him hold their nest-eggs so they wouldn’t lose them anymore. He had a special nest-egg holder that he had built on the bank near the street wall.
As I said, it was a pretty big henhouse.
Everybody was pretty happy with this arrangement. Until one day, Chicken Little went into the wall street area and took a peak at the nest egg holder. Lo and behold all the eggs were gone. Nothing there but empty shells.
Chicken Little told the other chickens, the sky fell, the flimsy henhouse collapsed, and the fox ran away.
The chickens tried to rebuild the henhouse for two years and then gave up in fear and frustration. So they had a tea party and invited the fox back.
Henhouse building was hard. What they really liked was watching the fox’s TV.
America, ya gotta love it.