Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-02
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
ROSTERS.


By prof J. billings. .N
Thare il rot on the whole horizon ov
live na,ur A more pleazing and strength
oniue study than the Rooster. This re-
markable package Of feathers has bin for
ages food for philosophik as well as the
simnle curious mind. They belong tew
the feathered sekt denominated poultry,
and are the husbands Of menny wives.
In Utah it is considered q disgrace tew
sneak disrespekful OF rooster. Brig
ham Young's coat ov arms is rooster in
full blast, growing till he is almost bent
over double backward.
The flesh ov the rooster is very similar
tew the flesh ov the hen; it is hard tew
distinguish the difference, espeshly in
yure soup. BOOSTERS are the pugllists
amung the domestic burds; they wear
the belt, and having no shoulder tew
strike from, they strike from the heel.
Rooslers, according to profane history,
il my edukashun remembers me right,
were formerly a man, who come suddenly
upon one ov the heather gods at time
when he want prepared tew see COM
pauy, and waz for that offense rebuilt
over into the fust rooster, and waz for
ever afterward destined tew crow ms
kind of warning. This change from a
man akounts for their fighting abilities,
and for their politeness tew the hens.
Thare is nothing in man that woman
admircs more than his reddyness and
ability to smash another fellow, and 1t IL
iiss so with hen. When rooster gifts
licked the hens all march oph with the
other rooster, if he amt half so big or
handsome.
1t IL pluck that wins hen or a wo-
man.
There is a great variety ov pedigree
amung the rooster race, but for steddy biz
ness, give me the old-fashion dominique
rooster, short-legged, and when they
walk they alwus strut, and their buzzums
stick out like n alderman's abdominal
cupboard. This breed is hawk-colored,
and has crooked tail on them arched
like a sickle, and az full ov feathers as a
new duster.
But when you come right down to grit,
and throw all outside Influences over
board, there amt nothing on earth, nor
under it, that can out-slyIe, out-step, out
brag, or out.pluck regular Bantum
rooster.
They always put me in mind ov a very
small dandy practicing before looking
glass.
They don't weigh more than thirty
ounces, but they make az much fuss az
tun. have seen them trying tew pick a
quarrel with two-hoss wagon, and don't
think they would hesitate tew fight a
Westinghouse if it waz the least sassy |
tew them.
1t seems tew be necessary that there |
should be sumthing outrageous IN evry-
thing, tew show us whar propriety ends
and Improperly begins. This IL the
melancholy case in the rooster affair;
for we have the shanghi rooster, the
gratest outrage, in my opinyun, ever
committed in the annals of poultry.
Theze kritters are the camels amung
fowls, they nope around the barnyard,
tipping over the hay racks aud stepping
on the yung goslns, and evry now and
then they crow confusion.
If emmy body should Civ me shanghi
rooster should halter him and.keep him
in a box stall, and feed him on cut feed,
and if he would work kind in harness, all
right; if not, l would butcher him the
fust wet day that cum, and salt him down
tew give tew the poor.
But there amt nobody going tew Civ
me one ov this breed, knot if know it;
don't think thare IL a man on earth mean
enough tew do it.
BOOSTERS do but very little household \
work; they won't lay emmy eggs, nor try
tew hatch any, nor see tew the young
ones; this satisfys me that there is some
.-.,,k =, 4ha ,nvth oloaika Il a oknnnt nv tho
rooster's fust origin.
Yu kant git rooster tew pay emmy
attention tew young one; they spend
their time 10 growing, strutting, and occa-
sionally find a worm, which they make
remarkable fuss over, calling up their
wives from distance, apparently tew
treat them, but just az the hens get thare
this elegant and elaborate cuss bends
over and gobbels up the morseL
Just like man, for all the ,corld.