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One day in the dead of winter, I looked out my back window and saw a chicken.
One day in the dead of winter, I looked out my back window and saw a chicken.
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2023-12-16
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One day in the dead of winter, I looked out my back window and saw a chicken. It was jet-black with a crimson wattle, and it seemed unaware that it was in New York City. In classic barnyard fashion, it was scratching, pecking and clucking.
I shrugged off the apparition. Birds come and go. Usually they’re pigeons, not chickens, but like other birds, this one had wings and it would probably use them. Or so I thought.
The protagonist of this Story is known simply as the chicken. How it came to a small backyard here, remains a matter of conjecture. The chicken made its first appearance next door, at the home of a multitude of cabdrivers from Bangladesh. My wife, Nancy, and I figured they had bought the chicken and were fattening it for a feast. That hypothesis fell into doubt when the chicken hopped the fence and began pacing the perimeter of our yard with a proprietary air.
Eating it was out of the question. As a restaurant critic and an animal lover, I subscribe to a policy of complete hypocrisy. Serve fish or fowl to me, but don’t ask me to watch the killing. Once I meet it, I don’t want to eat it.
Nancy and I next theorized that the chicken had escaped from a live-poultry market about four blocks away and was on the run. Our hearts went out to the brave little refugee. We had to save it.
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故事的主人公就叫小鸡。至于它怎么会来到这里一直让人捉摸不透。小鸡第一次出场是在隔壁邻居家,那儿住着许多从盂加拉来的出租车司机.我和我太太南希猜想一定是他们买了鸡,打算养肥了好饱餐一顿。可是后来小鸡跳过篱笆,在我家的后院大摇大摆地巡视,俨然一副主人的架势,我们俩的这种假设也就大有疑问了。
吃掉它?绝不会。我既爱美食,又爱动物,只能采取十足的伪君子政策——鸡鸭鱼肉我都吃,但别让我看见屠宰过程,看了就不想吃了。
于是,我和南希推测,小鸡可能是从四个街区以外的生禽市场跑出来的,属于在逃之列。我们俩从心里同情这个勇敢的小难民。我们得救救它。
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