Mick lived in the country, and he had quite a big garden. He
grew vegetables, and he had some nice, far chickens too. He sold the eggs and
the meat, and got quite a lot of money for
them.
His neighbour had a big garden, too, and he also had vegetables
and nice, fat chicken in it. There was a wire fence between the gardens, but it
was very old, and the chickens often found holes in it and went through.
Now Mick wanted a new fence between his garden and his neighbour’s,
so Mr. Brown came to build it. Mick said to him, “Please make the fence out of
strong wood. And I want a hole in it. Make it big enough for my chickens to get
into my neighbour’s garden and eat his vegetables, but too small for his to get
into mine and eat mine”.