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- The heart attack
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- It was peaceful in the zoo this time of the day. All the irritating brats had
- long since gone to bed and one had time to think one's own thoughts.
- Dr. Henri Härtz, who was on vacation from the hospital, where he worked, was
- walking back and forth in the zoo, enjoying what he saw and what he thought. He
- walked past several cages, until he arrived to the bird cage. Then he stopped
- to look at the birds.
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- "Those birds look happy", thought Dr., "since they sing so much to themselves."
- He thought, what it could be the result of. Becouse he was poetical and didn't
- know a great deal about anatomy, he thought it was the result of their hearts.
- Then he had a sudden inspiration attack. If a bird heart could make a bird
- happy, why not a human too? This was a great idea! He would transfer a bird
- heart to a human!
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- Happy and in a hurry Dr. left the zoo and stepped into the only train which
- went to the hospital. He used public transport a lot, because it was easy to
- use. (And Dr.'s knowledge about automobile mechanics was near that of a water-
- melon.)
- When he arrived in the hospital Dr. opened the huge wooden door which lead to
- the anticipation room of the operation theatre. Inside he was greeted by an 86-
- year old woman with a heart failure.
- "There's a brilliant test person for the operation!" thought Dr. He opened
- the vast steel door leading to the operation theatre and moved his patient
- there. After putting his patient to sleep Dr. carefully removed her own heart
- and transferred a bird heart he had stolen from the zoo to replace it.
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- After the operation had lasted for an hour and a half the job was finished. The
- patient awoke and greeted Dr. Dr. greeted her back. After paying for the
- operation the patient went to her home.
- Just at her home door the woman's organs started to reject the bird heart.
- With blood streams snapping apart at a great speed the woman had the worst
- heart attack of her life and fell dead on her home door.
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- Dr. Henri Härtz slowly lowered the newspaper back to his desk. He had found the
- death announcement he had been looking for. "Hmm", he thought, "apparently bird
- hearts cannot be transferred to humans."
- Two months later two police officers came to visit Dr.'s home, and took him
- to visit a judge. Dr. got a sentence which was put immediately into action.
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