趣味英语故事：Two or three 2还是3

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a schoolboy who has just pas sed his examination in arithmetic（算术） comes home for his holidays His mother has just put two roast chickens on the table, and the boy, who thinks himself very clev er, says to his father,I can prove to you by arithmetic that there are three chickens on the dish."
“Oh！"” says the father，“ How can you do that？”
Well, this is one, and that is two, and one and two make three.
“ How very clever！" exclaims（大声说） the father..“ Then let your mother take this one, I am going to eat the second and you may have the third.”