“Let’s build
a wall between us and our neighbors,” says the Fox.
“Okay,” says
the farmer.
“Oh, and
build a mote around it, and put alligators in it.”
“Alligators?
That’s not a good idea.”
“Shoot the
people if they come over to our side of the fence.”
“But Mr.
Fox, you can’t kill your neighbors. It’s against the law.”
“Well, shoot
them in the leg.”
“Mr. Fox,
you can’t go around shooting people, that’s against the law too.”
“Really? But, I’m The Fox, I can do anything.”
The farmer,
because he was fed up with the way things were going and wanted a change, invited
the Fox into his chicken house. (He has roosters too.)
He believed the
story when the fox told him he would clean up the hutch, put in new straw, keep
out the riff-Raff. The chickens would have a better life, he said. He would
throw a few crumbs their way and the chickens would be happy.
The farmer
was so enamored with the Fox that he forgot that the fox ate chickens.
And so the
story goes…
This came to
my attention yesterday: A sixty-five-year-old woman fears that she might be
sent back to Germany in the sweep to clean up the chicken house.
She was
adopted as an infant but does not have papers to prove it.
Her folks are gone,
what does she have now to prove she has lived in the chicken house for over
sixty years? She provided eggs for the farmer and thought she belonged.
And the hapless
farmer, fearing repercussions from The Fox, has orders to pull baby chicks from
beneath their mommas on cold nights and leave them to their own devices.
We have to
help that farmer. He has lost his marbles.
And get
that frick’en Fox out of the hen house!