[Jokes4u] joke

[Steve Bailey]

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A magician worked on a wealthy (and generous) merchant's trading ship to
keep the crews entertained. Given scurvy and general bad living, the
turnover of sailors was quite heavy, allowing the magician to get away with
doing the same tricks over  and over again.
One problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began
to understand how the magician did every trick.

Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of the
show:  "Look, it's not the same  hat!"  "Look, he's hiding the
flowers under the  table."
"Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?"

The magician was furious, but couldn't do anything. It was,
after all the captain's parrot.

Then the ship hit a reef and sank in minutes.

The magician found himself on a piece of wood in the  middle of
the sea with, as fate would have it, the parrot. They stared at each
other with hatred, but did not utter a word.

This went on for a day and then another and then another.

Finally on the fourth day, the parrot could not  hold back:
"OK, I give up. Where've you hidden the ship?"