 SELIGOR'S CASTLE ALONG
WITH
LITTLE BO PEEP
BRINGS
YOU
Milo
Macourek was born in 1926 at Kromeriz,
Czechoslovakia. After
studying at a school of music and drama, he held
various jobs as a
factory worker, scene shifter, warehouseman,
publisher's editor,
university lecturer on literature and art, story
editor for
Czechoslovak Films, and lately also as a
screenwriter. Apart from his children's
books.
He writes poetry
and prose, as well as plays.
Jacob's
Chicken
by: Milos Macourek
(1926-2002)
A
chicken is a chicken, you all know how a chicken
looks, sure you do, so
go ahead and draw a chicken the teacher tells the
children, and all the
kids suck on crayons and then draw chickens,
coloring them black or
brown, with black or
brown crayons, but wouldn't you know it, look at
Jacob, he draws a
chicken with every crayon in the
box, then borrows
some from Laura, and
Jacob's chicken ends up with an orange head,
blue wings and
red thighs
and the teacher says that's some
bizarre chicken, what do you say
children, and the
kids roll with
laughter while the teacher goes on, saying, that's all
because Jacob wasn't paying
attention, and, to tell the truth, Jacob's
chicken really looks more like a turkey,
no wait, a peacock, it's as big as a quail and as
lean as a swallow, a
peculiar pullet, to say the least, Jacob earns an F
for it and the
chicken, instead of being
hung on
the wall, migrates to a pile of misfits on top of
the teacher's
cabinet, the poor chicken's feelings are hurt,
nothing makes it happy
about being on top of a teacher's cabinet, so,
deciding not to be
chicken, it flies off through the open
window.
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The rest of this wonderful story is at Seligor's Castle, keeping BoPeep company.