The Parrot and the Chicken

The Parrot and the Chicken

So there’s this Rector who was given a parrot by an old farmer. The trouble was the parrot swore. The rector was fairly easy going but this parrot swore like a sailor, he could swear for five minutes straight without repeating himself. The Rector thought this is not quite the example that should be being set and in any case this bird’s foul mouth was driving him crazy.

One day, it got to be too much, so he grabbed the bird by the throat, shakes him really hard, and yells, “STOP IT!” But this just made the bird mad and he swore more than ever.

To keep it quiet and trying to teach it a lesson the Rector shut the bird in a kitchen cupboard. This again had the opposite effect and really aggravated the bird. He clawed and scratched, finally biting a hole throughthe cupboard door and the bird poked its head through and let out a stream of vulgarities worse than ever.

Just so embarrassed the Rector grabbed the bird and threw it into his freezer. For the first few seconds there is a terrible din. The bird thumping and thrashing. Then it suddenly gets *very* quiet.

At first the Rector just waits, but then Christian Charity overcomes him as he thinks the bird may be hurt.

After a couple of minutes of silence, he’s so worried that he opens up the freezer door.

There was the parrot calmly sitting there. Without a murmur it climbs onto the Rector’s outstretched arm and says, “Awfully sorry about the trouble I gave you. I’ll do my best to improve my vocabulary from now on.”

The Rector was astounded. He couldn’t understand the transformation that had come over the parrot. Then the parrot says, “By the way, could you tell me what did the chicken do wrong?”