I think you ought to belong to the society which tries to protect tomato
worms.  I thought they were the weirdest folks around but once again Texas
pulls out the win.

Mike
On 7/24/03 10:18 PM, "Stan Wilder" <wilden1@JUNO.COM> wrote:

> Zebediah was in the fertilized egg business.
>
> He had several hundred young layers, called pullets, and eight or ten
> roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs.
>
> Zeb kept records, and any rooster that didn't perform well went into the
> soup pot and was replaced.
>
> That took an awful lot of Zeb's time; so, Zeb got a set of tiny bells
> and attached them to his roosters.
>
> Each bell had a different tone so that Zeb could tell, from a distance,
> which rooster was performing.
>
> Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply
> by listening to the bells.
>
> Zeb's favorite rooster was old Brewster. A very fine specimen he was,
> too but on this particular morning,
>
> Zeb noticed that Brewster's bell had not rung at all!! Zeb went to
> i! nvestigate.
>
> The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells a-ringing! The pullets,
> hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
>
> BUT, to Ze b's amazement, Brewster had his bell in his beak, so it
> couldn't ring.
>
> He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
>
> Zeb was so proud of Brewster that he entered him in the county fair.
>
> Brewster was an overnight sensation.
>
> The judges not only awarded him the No Bell Piece Prize but also the
> Pulletsurprise
>
>