“Jim Deep speaking.”

“Jim, we have a problem and I want you to fix it. Mrs. Rotor tells me the chickens were all discovered to have left legs.”

“Mr. Rippy, all chickens have left legs.”

“You didn’t let me finish. They escaped the holding pen and appear to have left legs behind.”

“What, the chickens are legless?”

“It’s hard to say. Mrs. Rotor says her staff are unable to catch any of them.”

“So, they are flying away?”

“Negative. It seems that they are running away.”

“How exactly can legless chickens run away?”

“I didn’t say they were legless.”

“But you—”

“There are crazed, fast-moving chickens hovering at legs-length over the ground and in the pen is a pile of chicken legs. Fix it, Jim!”

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“Mrs. Rotor, how many chickens are loose?”

“27 including the purple ones.”

“And how many chicken legs are in the pen?”

“I don’t know, Jim. A lot.”

“As in, say, 54?”

“No, like a thousand!”

“Mrs. Rotor?”

“Yes?”

“Did you just tell me some of the chickens are purple?”