THE PRIEST

THIS IS AN OLD ONE,

BUT WORTH READING AGAIN.

 


  

The priest in a small Irish village loved the rooster  
and ten hens
 
He kept  them  in the hen house behind the church.
                   
One Sunday morning, before mass,
he went to feed the birds 

and discovered that the cock was missing.


 
He knew about cock fights in the village,
so he questioned his parishioners in church.

During mass, he asked the congregation,

'Has anybody got a cock?'


 


 All the men stood up.


 
'No, no,'
he said,
'that wasn't what I meant.
Has anybody seen a cock?'



 All the women stood up.





 
'No, no,'
he said,
 'that wasn't what I meant.
Has anybody seen a cock that doesn't 

belong to them?' 


 

 Half the women stood up.


'No, no,'
he said,
'that wasn't what I meant. 
Has anybody seen
 MY
cock?'
 
 Sixteen altar boys, two priests

 and a goat stood up.
 The priest fainted.
 

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