"There are two chickens on the plate",said the son. He took one of the chickens in his hand and said,"Here is one more; and one and two makes three. So there are three chickens." Then the father took one of the chickens to himself, gave the other to his wife, and said, "I will have one of the chickens myself, your mother will have another, and you will have the third for your supper and nothing else." The father kept his word and so the son went without his supper.