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George the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets", and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs (for you city folks).

The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That record keepin' took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone so George could tell from a distance which rooster was performing.

Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.

The farmer's favourite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine specimen he was, too.

But on this particular morning George noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

George went to investigate.

The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

But to Farmer George's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.

He would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and, walk on to the next one.

George was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result ... The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.