Getting ERSONAL with PETS

摘要

IEEMEMBER reading a letter from a small girl to one of those kids' columns about a pet hen she loved. Apparently it was a quiet, little, old thing, and the small child could carry it around with her and give it special attention and extra feed. One dreadful day, her grandfather decided to cull the older hens, and before the child could protest, he grabbed the nearest hen, which happened to be the pet, and wrung its neck. There were tears, and humble apologies from the grandparent, but the little girl wrote "Mum told me you should never get perkonal with a chicken".