Give me your guinea fowl.

E.B. wanted to see the guinea fowl. He said, “I’ve never seen a guinea fowl.”

This isn’t quite true, because he’d seen a guinea fowl the previous week, when he came to my house saying the same thing.

He watches the guinea fowl a little, then asks me to give him one.

Me: I cannot. If I give you the husband, the wife will be angry. If I give you the wife, the husband will be angry.

E.B: They will not be angry.

Me: But if the guinea fowl gives birth, I will give you one.

E.B: Guinea fowl will give birth?

Me: Yes.

Luckily for E.B, he has since moved to Kantaly, where  his neighbors across the street keep a roaming flock of guinea fowl.