THE CHICKEN STORY.
THE CHICKEN STORY. When Mary Jane and I lived in the apartment on 14th Street, there was a period when every Thursday evening we would hear soft chanting, accompanied by what sounded like maracas being shaken. Then there would be the loud squawk of a chicken. And then silence.
One Thursday all this occurred when my mother was visiting and she asked Mary Jane what had happened. Mary Jane had an answer: Philip would explain when he got home from work.
Somehow when I got home from work and the question was promptly raised, the discussion got onto the puzzle of how one would get a live chicken by the doorman.
We never found out whether my mother had any suspicions about the chicken.