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Press, 2 June 1977, Page 18

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TIME HEALS

The woman in this story plays golf and only drinks to be sociable. But sociability is only a veneer, a mere cloak we change to match our social surroundings. What really matters, and what most of us possess an infinitesimal part of, is a true consideration for the; feelings of others. I She was the doting owner of five white leg herns to whom she fed i the household scraps plus the odd handful of wheat, and from whom she received a regular supply; of fresh, wholesome eggs 1 As the happy months went t

i by she grew to know • each fowl individually:, they were like, oid' friends. But they did not! play golf. Apart from ■ that, she loved them. But sadly the day dawned when the diminishing production of eggs and the increasing cost of; wheat caused her to have grave doubts as to their I economic worth. After much emotional turmoil j she came to a painful ■ decision. i Having given the exe- t < utioner. a callous male, ; instructions to kill, pluck ' and rlean the birds, then 1 to bury them deeply, out c of sight, at the bottom of,!

’.the deep freeze, bravely she waved her little; H friends a last farewell J : The mere thought of their; urgent squawking appeals; as they hung head down,; wings valiantly flapping over the bloody chopping; block drove her far away! from the scene of the] execution to the sane-; tuary of the golf course. Much later, when all; memory of their trea-P sured moments together] vas decently buried in] the hazy past, the; anonymous corpses were ; resurrected. stuffed,:] cooked and eaten —] eagerly. j