"Cardigan to get a BIG CHOOK" the heading reads. Underneath is a cartoon picture of a giant chicken, with the words beneath, "The Cardigan Times' artist's representation of the BIG CHOOK"; the chicken, a Leghorn, is winking and giving a wings' up. "It's not an ISA Brown," Maurice says. "I specifically told Jack we had ISA Browns not Leghorns." "The fool," Doris says. She has a copy of the Cardigan Times and is fuming with the "representation". "He hasn't taken you seriously." Maurice Humboldt, staring into the abyss of debt and bankruptcy, turns his farming business upside down in a riotous attempt to keep the foxes away from the hen house.