Some thieves broke into a house, finding nothing but a rooster. They stole it and tried to race off as fast as they could go. When the thieves arrived home, they planned to stick the rooster in a box and send him far away. “Please keep me,” the rooster begged, “I can perch on your bedpost and wake you up in the night so that you may work.” The men replied, “that is exactly why we have to send you away!”Some thieves broke into a house, finding nothing but a rooster. They stole it and tried to race off as fast as they could go. When the thieves arrived home, they planned to stick the rooster in a box and send him far away. “Please keep me,” the rooster begged, “I can perch on your bedpost and wake you up in the night so that you may work.” The men replied, “that is exactly why we have to send you away!”