- A librarian is working away at her desk when she notices that a chicken has come into the library and is patiently waiting in front of the desk.
- When the chicken sees
that it has the librarian's attention, it squawks,
- "Book, book, book, BOOK!"
- The librarian complies, putting a couple of books down in front of the chicken.
- The chicken quickly grabs them and disappears.
- The next day, the librarian is again disturbed by the same chicken, who puts the previous day's pile of books down on the desk and again squawks,
- "Book, book, book, BOOK!"
- The librarian shakes her head, wondering what the chicken is doing with these books, but eventually finds some more books for the chicken.
- The chicken
disappears.
- The next day, the librarian is once again disturbed by the chicken, who squawks (in a rather irritated fashioon, it seems),
- "Book, book, book, BOOK!"
- By now, the
librarian's curiosity has gotten the better of her, so she gets a pile of books for the chicken, and follows the bird when it leaves the library.
- She follows it through the
parking lot, down the street for several blocks, and finally into a large park. The chicken disappears into a small grove of trees, and the librarian follows.
- On the other side of the trees is a small marsh. The chicken has stopped on the side of the marsh.
- The librarian, now really curious, hurries over and sees that there is a small frog next to the chicken, examining each book, one at a time.
The librarian comes within earshot just in time to hear the frog saying,
- "Read it, read it, read it..."