Last night, I was reading my little one The Little Red Hen and there was a picture of the title character, dressed in a frock and pushing a wheelbarrow with her wheat in it to the millers. In the background, was a normal cow, standing in a field. I spent half a moment contemplating that: the Little Red Hen and her slack-*** Duck, Goose, Cat and Pig companions all speak, wear clothes, walk on two legs (ok, that's less impressive for Duck and Goose) and have presence of mind to desire a welfare state supported by Little Red Hen's agriculture and yet there's a normal cow just hanging out. Does some other pants-wearing farm animal milk the cow? That's sorta weird.
Anyway, the obvious answer I learned today is that the Little Red Hen isn't actually a hen.
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Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.