Wife wanted.......
The man who ran the Chicken-farm,
placed an advert for a Wife.
"Must be quite good looking,
and able,with a knife.
And good at cleaning chicken sheds,
and put up with their clucking
and also,most importantly,
be bloody good at plucking.....

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