Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-11-10
ROOsters.
By prof. j. billings.

Thare is not on tho whole horizon ov live natur . more pleazng and strength. ening study than the Booster. This re. markable package of feathers has bin for ages food for philosophk as we'll as the simple curious mind. They belong tew the feathered sekt dep,ominatcd poultry, and are the husbands of meany wives In Utah 1t is konsidered disgrace tcw speak disrespekful of a rooster Brigham 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, espe,hly in yure soup. i,oosters are the puglists amung the domestik burds they were the belt, and having no shoulder tew strike from, they strike from the heel. Boosters, according to profane history, if my edukashun remembers mo right, were formerly man, who come sudden ly upon on ov the heather z ds at time when he wunt prepared tew see company, and waz for that oflense rebuilt over into that tust rooster, and waz forever after ward destined tew crow as kind of war ming This charge from man akounts for their fighting abilities, and for their politeness tew the hens Thare is noth ing in man that woman admires more than hs reddyness and ability to smash mother fellow, and it iz jiss sowith hen. When rooster gifts licked the hens all march oph with the other rooster, if he aint half so big or handsome.
 It iz pluck that wins hen or woman lh,r; is great variety ov pedigree amung the rooster race but for steddy blzuess give me the old fashion dominique rooster, short legged, and when they walk they alwus strut, and their buzzums stick out like aldermanss abdominal cupboard This breed is hawk -coored, and has a crooked tall on them arched like sickle, and az iull ov feathers as a new duster
 But when you come right down to grit and throw all outside influences overboard thorc amt nothing on earth, nor under it. thut can out-style, out-step, outbrag, 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 q quarrel with d two-hoss wagon, and don't think they wonld hesitate tew fight a meeting house if 1t waz the least sassy tew them
 It seems tew be necessary that there should be sumthing outrageous in evry- thing, tew show us whar propriety ends and impropriety begins. Iris iz the melancholy case in the rooster affair; for we have the shanghi rooster, the gratest outrage, in my opiuyun, ever committed in the annals of poultry.
 Theze krtters are the cames amung fowls, they nope around the barnyard tipping over the hay racks and stepping on the yung goslins, and evry now and then they crow confusion.
 If ennybody shoulder give me shangh rooster should halter him and keep him in box stall, and feed him on cut feed and if he would work kind in harness, a l right; if not, would butcher him the fust wet day that cum, and salt him down tew give tew the poor.
 But there aint noboddy q going tew giv me one ov this breed, knot if know it i; don't think thare iz man on earth mean enough tew do it.
 Ro, CTS do but very little household work; they won't lay enny eggs nor try te" ha'cu any, uot oee te" 'he young ones; this satsiys me that there is some truth in the mytho!ogikal ackount ov the roosters fust origin.
 Yu kant git rooster tew pay enny attention tew young one; they spend their time in growing, strutting, and occa- sionally find worm, which they make q remarkable fuss over. calling up their wives from a distance, apparently tew treat them, but just az the hens get thare this elegant and elaborate cuss bends over and gobbe s up the morsel