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She told you, your father walked onto the verandah and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn't flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze. She told you, your father stepped from the verandah to recover the recalcitrant chook, to find the soles of his feet missing the ground, landing on thin air and the chook drifting higher. He couldn't let the chook go but with each step he found the publish chook rose higher. And of course he publish had to follow. She told you it was like watching him walk a stairway to heaven. Your mother said, it didn't appear at all as if he was flying, more like floating, like someone rising from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the sea. On the verandah your mother watched from below until your father and the chook became flecks in the sky. She rushed inside and grabbed the brass navy telescope.
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