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Show Had Hen but Been Long on Legs and Short on Neck! The landlady glanced round the table at her twelve hungry boarders board-ers before starting to carve the rather sad-looking chicken. In rapid succession she asked each which part of the fowl he preferred. Ten of them decided on legs. The carver dropped her knife with a clatter on the dish. "What do you imagine thir is?" she said, sarcastically, pointing to the chicken. "A centipede, or what?" "Oh, no," replied the tc.-.rder who had been served. "Juc'ing by the piece of neck I've r t. I should imagine it was a g'r-fTe." |