THE NERVOUS CHICK

    

   A chick was spurned by a hen because he was still very small to please her. The chick was nervous, went to the street and met a dove. The dove heard the sad history of the chick and said:

   -And why don’t you eat the feed that the men give to the chicks grow faster?

   And then the chick answered:

   -I am nervous because I already ate it and now I don’t want to be eaten by the men before I become a cock.

   (Osmar Batista Leal)   

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