Rooster Coveralls

"Rooster Coveralls"*

*A traveling salesman was passing through the country
side and stopped at a farm asking for some cool water.
The old farmers wife invited him to sit in the shade of
the porch with her and got him some cold lemonade.

They sat and talked for a while when suddenly a hen
went running by with a rooster covered in a pair of
coveralls chasing her.

The salesman asked, "What in the devil was that?"

The old farmers wife told him "Well you see, some years
ago we had a tornado come through here and hit the
hen house. It killed all our chickens except for that
rooster, but it plucked every feather off of him. Well
I kind of felt sorry for him, seeing how as he did
survive a tornado and I knitted him a pair of coveralls."

The salesman said, "Well that is just about the funniest
thing I have ever seen."

To which the farmers wife replied, "You think that's
funny, you ought to see that rooster hold a hen down
with one leg and try to get those coveralls off with the other."
Received on Mon Nov 17 07:37:49 2008