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Show - IIMiliCaiwme The Blackbird and the Thrush JJERE'S A LAUGH for you. After you've laughed, read 'on J,J,through the last sentence. I found this in "Live a New Life" by Professor David G. Powers, a small book but an interesting one, chock full of good advice, subtly given. One Christmas day in 1700, Pat's wife Mary brought in a beautifully roasted chicken. As she placed her bird on the table, a blackbird alighted on the window sill. "Pat." she said, "look at , that beautiful blackbird in the window." Just then the blackbird flew away, and as Pat K ' came within range of the window, a thrush alight- f$y ""S ed where the blackbird had been. f - "You mean a thrush, don't you, Mary?" he jTl said. JT Jt Mary, busy at the table, didn't look A 1 toward the window again, until the fLJj J thrush flew away. "I mean the blackbird that was there," she Carnegie said. Pat looked at his wife coolly and answered, "It was a thrush." Now Mary's blood pressure rose. "I know a blackbird when I see one," she said. "Wisht, woman," snorted her angry husband. "You don't know anything." And from that a real row ensued. The next Christmas as Mary placed lier chicken on the table, she said, "Thank God, there's no blackbird on the window siil this year." Said Pat, "Are you referring to the thrush that was there last year?" And another fight was on. For 20 years this fijht was renewed re-newed each Christmas day. , Now: do 'you ever, or have you ever, followed Mary's and Pat's example, even though it might be, or might have been, in a lesser degree? Most people aren't free from such a temptation, and no one ever gained from its practice any more than did Mary or Pat. |