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Mr. King was a chicken farmer. He had hundreds   1 chickens and he   2  the eggs and the meat and got a lot of money from them. But he lived in a very   3 country and he found that his hens could hardly   4 eggs in summer. So he decided to put air- conditioning in his chicken-house, then the hens would lay well  5  year round and he would get   6  eggs and more money. The owner of the air-conditioning

company wanted to   7  Mr. King to buy some more for his own house, so he said,“Your wife would be much   8  to have a nicer house to live in.” But Mr. King was not   9 in that idea. “My wife   10  lay eggs!”he said.