I Know But I Do Not Understand

Today's spy mission was a good success I think because I was able to hear most of what Barry and the chickens were talking about even though I did not understand why they were saying what they were saying.

Barry was talking to them about how good the farm used to be in the old days, before any animals knew how many of them the humans ate. He asked them if they remembered ever feeling scared or anxious before and they said yes they remembered that.

He asked them what had changed between the old feeling and the new feeling and they said that now they knew a bad thing they did not before.

He then asked them who told them about the bad thing and they all said Goebbels and I was quite surprised to hear my own name, let me tell you, coming out of the mouths of 16 chickens at the same time.

Barry was quiet after that and the chickens were quiet and then he asked if the chickens would like to go back to feeling less anxious and less afraid and they all said yes and he asked them what would need to happen to make them feel that way and they said they wanted to stop knowing the things that they knew.

I looked over at my shack and Jasmine and Petunia and Carmel were doing a very convincing job talking to me but not really talking to me and the coop was quiet again.

I did not want to risk being found out as the spy I was being and so I then chose to leave having heard enough for the time being and I went back behind the barn and then Carmel saw me and the Farmyard Four all decided to end their conversation too and they left my shack.

The chickens were still in their coop and so I ran so fast back to my shack and then turned around inside and walked out of it just as the chickens were all leaving.

This time though Barry did not even sneak out afterwards. He walked proudly out after the last chicken had left the coop and he looked over at me and I think he might have sneered at me but then again his face always kind of looks that way.

These are all interesting developments and I will share them all tomorrow with the Farmyard Four at our lunch and learn which will be back at our usual meeting spot because we will not be spies two days in a row.