A magician worked on a cruise ship. Since the audience was different
each week, he did the same tricks over and over again. One problem:
The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand
how the magician did every trick. Once the parrot understood, she
started shouting in the middle of the show: "Look, it's not the same
hat! Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table. Hey, why are all
the cards the ace of spades?"
The magician was furious, but couldn't do anything. It was, after all,
the captain's parrot. Then the ship sank. After swimming for a few
hours, the magician found himself on a piece of wood floating in the
middle of the sea with, as fate would have it, the parrot. They stared
malevolently at each other but did not utter a word. This went on for
a day and then another, and then another.
Finally, on the fourth day, the parrot could restrain herself no
longer: "OK," she said, "I give up. What'd you do with the ship?"
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