Subject: Butch the Rooster

Keith the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens) called 'pullets,' and eight or ten roosters whose job it was to fertilize the eggs. The farmer kept records, and any 
rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced.

That took up an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so Keith could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.

The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine specimen he was. But on this particular morning Keith noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all. Keith went to investigate.

The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to farmer Keith's amazement, Butch had his bell in his beak so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job, and walk on to the next one.

Keith was so proud of Butch that he entered him in the Boone County Fair, and Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result..

The judges not only awarded Butch the No Bell Piece Prize, but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly Butch was a politician in the making! Who else, but a politician, could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them 
when they weren't paying attention?