The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-11-19
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| ts1 1JOsHBILLiINGs ON BOOSTERS. gf,r
There is not on the whole horizon
OF oY live natur more plea2zffhfHg and
strengthening study thah the Roost-
er., This remarkable packagg Of feath-
ers has bin for ages food for phiIoso-
pbic as wen as the Simple curious
MING, They belong tew the feathered
sekt den6minated poultry, and are the
husbandz Of t meililny wives! pa IN Utah
it is konsidered disgrta2nnce teM speak
disrespectful of a rooster. Is Brigham
Young's coat 'ioVV ioV arms is rooster, in
full blast, growing till he is almost
bent over double backward. pc l;.5a2
>, The flesh Of the! rooster is very sim
liar tew the flesh Of the hen; it is
hard tew distinguish the difference,
especially IN yulre E soup. BOOSTERS are
the pugilists. among the domestick
burds; they wear the belt, and having
no shoulder tew strike from, they
strike from the head. I. T. -.''L'z sf-
Roosters, according to iprofane his
tory, if mi educashun remembers me
right, were formerly man, who come
Suddenly upon one Of the heather
gods, at a time when he want prepared
to see company, and waz, fof that of
Tense, rebuilt over into the fust roost-
er, and was forever afterward des-
tined to crow as a kind ov warning
This change from a man akounts for
their fighting abilities, and for their
politeness to the hens. Thare is moth
ing in a man that a woman admires
more, than his reddyness and ability
tew smash another fellow, aud it il
fists E.jjiist}so With It'll a hem. hen. When a rooster
gifts licked, the hens all march oph
with, the other rooster, if he ant haff
so big or handsome. -'1' 's' 10
It is pluck that wins a hen or a wo-
mau.
/. / There L CRATE variety ov pedigree
amung: the rootser race, but for stiddy
buziness give me the old fashun do
minique rooster, short-legged, and
when, they. walk they alwis strut, and
their buzzums stick out like an alder
mans, abdominal cupboard. This
breed is hawk-colored, and has a
crooked tail on them, arched like a
sickle, and az full ov feathers az a new
duster: -. -.
But when. al!7,o1 yon come right down to
grit, grit and throw all outside influences
! overheard, there aint nothing on
earth, nor under it, that can out-style,
out-step, out-brag, or out-pluck reg
| ufar Bantum rooster. 1..'' So .'''''
IT, They alwius,, put me in mind ov a
very small dandy, practicing before a
4 looking glass '5,''-,. s., -
|. They don't weigh more than thirty
ounces, but they make as much fuss
| as a tun. I have seen them trying
i btew, pick a quarrel with a two hoss
wagon, and don't think they would
! hesitate tew fight a Westinghouse il
it waz the least sassy tew them.
H., Il. is more than fun tew hear one ov
these little chevaliers crow; it is like
a four-year old baby trying to sing 6
j line out. ov the Star Spangled Banner
u The hen partner in this concern il
4 the most exquisite little boquet o1
neatness and feathers that the eye
ever roasted on. They are az prim a;
"a premature yung lady. tits luxury
to watch their daintyness, tew Sc,
them lay each feather with their bills
j in its place, and preside over them
f selves with az much delicacy as a bell
) before her mirror. '- :-''
But the consumrnation il tew see
the wife a mother, leading out six lit.
! tie chicks q bugging; six little chicks
) no bigger than bumblebees. /.
Il It seems tew be necessary that Their
should be Something outrageous il
: everything, tew, show us WHARF pro
priety ends and impropriety begins,
: This IL melancholy, the case in tn
rooster affair, for we hav the shangh
5 rooster, the gratest outrage in m.
t oiii!ri1i opiini!yrui1ni, ever committed in the an
nails of poultry. =
t These krittefs are the carnels amun:
: fowls, they NOPE about the barnyard
f tipping over the hayracks and step
i ping on the. iy!tung[ gosiins, and evr!
3 now low and tlieennt they crow confusion.
E ~ If emmy body should Civ me shang
: hi rooster / should halter him, and fee
' him !. and keep him in a box stall, an,
9 feed him on cut feed, and if he woul'
e work kind in harness, all a,ight,
: not, would butcher him the first we
: day that cum, and salt him down teI
q, giY teW the poor. T. -. ~ ii
Z :. But there aint noboddy a going tey
Civ me one; ov this breed, not if
( know til don't think thar,e is ma
-, on earth mean !. t6n te6nntullff tllff to do it. ~
y = Roosters do but very little house
I" hold work they won't lay emmy egg
: nor try teW hatch emmy, nor see to th
10 yung Zones; this satisfys me thf
n thafeis sum truth in the mythologik'
-: account ov the rooster's fust origin
h I .Yp kant git, q rooster to pay, enn
N attenshun ,tew. u yung one, they spen
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