A CHANTECLER JOKE.
A journalist recently wrote to a. friend:—
"Biarritz is on the tumultuous Bay of Biscay, and Cambo, where Rostand lives, is only a dozen miles behind Biarritz—a placid village in the Basque country.
" I tried to interview Rostand in his Basque home," he went on, " but it was useless.
" I did see his son, though. The young man talked excellent English. He cracked a lot of jokes about his father's rooster play, pretending that they were all jokes from the text. Wi, , he even declared that the curtain rises on the following scene:— " Chantecler, the eponymic rooster, is discovered in company with, his wives. In the background a quartet of clergymen are seen feasting upon young pullet. " Chantecler asks his favourite spouse, ' Where are our two eldest daughters!' ' Alas!' says Mrs. Chantecler, ' they have entered the ministry.
"Oh, all right. They were poorly qualified for lay members.'"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14486, 28 September 1910, Page 9
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150A CHANTECLER JOKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14486, 28 September 1910, Page 9
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