The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-06-13 00:00:00

THE FARM YARD.
ILOOSTE2B.

There is not on the whole horizon or ov liv natur a
more idolizing and strengthing studdy than the Rooster.
This remarkable package of feathers has bin for ages food
for philosophik, an well as the siinple currious mind.
They belong tow the feathered sett denominated poultry,
and are the husbands of inenny wives. in Iltah it in
konsidered a disgrace tow speak disrespekf ill of a rooster.
Brigham Young's coat ov arms is a rooster, in full
blast, crowing till he is almost bout over double back-
wards.

The Ilesh me the rooster is very similar tew the lie -Ii ov
the lien: it is hard tow distinguish the iliffrenee
espeshily in yure soup. Roosters are the pugilists ainung
the 4nmestik hunts ; they wear the belt, and having no
sehulder tow strike from they strike (ruin the heel.
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Roosters, greenling to profane history, if mi edukashun
remembers me right, were formerly a man, who came
suddenly upon one ov the heathen gods, at a time when
he want prepared Lew see company, and wax, for that
offense, rebuilt over into the lust rooster, and wax forever
afterward destined to crow, as a kind ov warning. This
change from a man akounts for their fighting
and for their politeness tow the hens. Thare is nothing
in a man that a woman admires more than his reddy-
ness and ability tow smash another fellow, and it
lz 3155 ro with a hen. When a rooster gits licked, the
hens all march oph with the other rooster, if he ain't haff
no big or handsome. It is pluck that wins a hen or a
woman,

Thare iz grate variety ov pmligree aninnz the rooster
rare, hut for stithly isizznens give ice the (ash
dommique rooster, short-legged, and when they walk,
they alvtus strut, and their buzzunis stick ioat, like an
alderman's abdominal ruphotsrd. This breed iz hawks
colored, and bar a crooked tail on them, arched liked a
sickle, and az 1111 °C feathers as a new duster.

But when you come right down to gait, and throw all
outside influences overboard, there aunt nothing on earth,
nor under it, that kan out-style, out-step, out-brag. or out-
pluck a regular Bantam rooster. They alwims put me in
mind ov a small ilandy, prakticing before a looking-glass,
They don't weigh more than 30 ouncee, but they make as
mach fues u a ton, i have seen them trieing tow pik a
quarrel with a two-horse waggon, and don't think they
would hesitate few tight a meeting-house, if it woe the
least bit sassy tow them.
It is more than fun tow hear one of these little chevaliers
crow, it is like a four-year-old balmy trimming tow sing a line
out ov the Star Spangled !tanner.
The hen partner 111 this concenm iz the most exquisit
little tioquet ov neatness and feathers that the eye ever
roosted on. They are as prim as us premature yung lady.
It is a luxury to watch their daintyness, tow see them lay
each feather with their bills, in its place, and preside over
thenmelfs with as mach delikasy And 'wide as a belle
before her mirror. But the consmnation is Lew see the
wife a mother, leading out six little chicks a bugging; six
little chicks no bigger than Immunblebees._

It seems tow be necessary that there should be sumthing
outrageous in evrything, ti, show us where propriety ends
and impropriety begins. Mil, iz melancholly, the cad in
the rooster affair, for we have the shanghai rooster, the
grated outrage, in mi opinion, ever committed in the
annals ov poultry. These kritters are the camels among
fowls, they mope around the barnyard, tipping over the
bay racks and stepping on the yung 3:astute, and evry now
and then they crow confusion. If cony body should give
inc a alumni rooster i should halter him, and keep him in
a box stall, and feed him on rut feed, and if he would
work kind in harness, all right, if not, i would butcher
him the lust wet day that cum, and salt him down tow
give taw the poor. Rut there ain't nolioddy • going
tow give me one ov this creed, knot if i know it ; i don't
think there's a wan on earth mean enough to do it.
Yu kant git • rooster to pay enny attenshun tow a run'
one, they spend their time in crowing, strutting, and
ureasionly find a worm, which they make a remarkabell
folks over, calling up their wives from a distance,
apparently tcw treat them, but just as the hens git
there, this elegant and elaborate ell.S bends aver and
gobbles up the morsel. Jtaa like a mao for all the mad.—
Jodi Billitkat.