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Pastimes : Why did the chicken cross the road?
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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (100)5/21/2000 2:11:00 PM
From: marcos   of 154
 
Adam Smith

The road-crossing effort of every chicken is the fun which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that effort, or in what is purchased with that produce from other chickenyards.

According therefore as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the chickenyard will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniences for road-crossing for which it has occasion.

But this proportion must in every chickenyard be regulated by two different circumstances; [...]

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