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THREE ladies die and meet St Peter at the Pearly Gates. He tells them there are two rules in Heaven: be happy and don’t tread on the ducks. They enter Heaven and, sure enough, there are ducks everywhere. The next day, one of the ladies treads on a duck. St Peter rushes over with an unwashed, ugly, hairy man and tells her the penalty is to be chained to him for eternity. Some time later, the second lady meets the same fate. The third one is very careful to watch her step, but one day St Peter brings over a bronzed, muscular man and chains him to her. She asks what she has done to deserve being chained to such a handsome fellow. ‘Nothing,’ St Peter replies. ‘But he trod on a duck.’

J. C. Madgin, Durham.