Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-22

soup. BOOSTERS are the pugilists

in yure soup. boosters are the pugilists
among the domestik burds; they wear
the belt, and having no shoulder tew
strike from, they strike from the heel
BOOSTERS, according to profane his
/ tory, if mi educashun remembers me
right, were formerly man, who come
suddenly upon one of the heather gods,
at time when he want prepared to see
company, and waz, for that offense, re-
built over into the fust rooster, and was
forever afterward destined 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 nothing in man that woman
admires more than his reddyness and
ability tew smash another fellow, and it
gifts licked, the hens all march oph with
the other rooster, if he aint haff so big or
handsome. vs.e -aT
1t iz pluck that wins hen or wo-
man.
There iz CRATE variety ov pedigree
amung the rooster race, but for stiddy
bizness give me the old fash dominique
rooster, short-legged, and when they
walk they alwus strut, and their buzz
dominal cupboard. This breed is hawk
colored, and has a crooked tail on them,
arched like sickle, and az full ov feath-
ers az a new duster.
But when you come right down to grit,
and throw all outside influences over
board, there aint nothing ON earth, nor
under it, that can out-style, out-step, out
brsg, or out-pluck regular Bantum
rooster.
They alwus put me in mind ov very
small dandy, practicing before look
ing-glass. r-i
They don't weigh more than thirty
ounces, but they make az much fuss az
tun. 1 have seen them trying tew pick
a quarrel with two boss Wagon, and
don't think they would hesitate tew fight
a meeting house if it waz the least sassy
tew them. .at-.1-.ij--
1t is more than fun tew hear one ov
these little chevaliers crow; it is like a
four-y ear old baby trying to sing line
out ov the Star Spangled Banner, Is
The hen partner in this concern il the
most exquisit little boquet of neatness
and feathers that the eye ever roasted
on. They are az prim az a premature
yung lady. 1t il a luxury to watch
their daintyness, tew see them lay each
feather with their bills, in its place,
and preside over themselves with az
much delicacy as belle before her mir
ror.
But the consummation iz tew see the
wife a mother, leading out six little
chicks a bugging; six little chicks no
bigger than bumblebees.
! It seems tew be necessary that there
should be something outrageous in eve
rything, tew show us WHARF propriety
ends and impropriety begins. This IL
Melancholy, the case in the rooster
affair, for we hav 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 about the barnyard,
tipping over the hayracks and stepping
on the yung goslins, and evry now and
then they crow confusion.
IF emmy body should Civ me a shanghi
rooster should halter him, and keep him
in box stall, and feed him on cut feed,
and if he would work kind in harness,
all right, if not, would butcher him the
fust wet day that cum, and salt him down
tew Civ tew the poor.
But there aint nobody a going tew
Civ me one ov this breed, not if know
it; don't think thare is man on earth
mean enuff to do it.
BOOSTERS do but very little household
work; they won't lay emmy eggs, nor try
tew hatch emmy, nor see to the young
, ones; this satisfys me that thare is sum
truth in the NEUROLOGICAL account ov the
ROSTERS fust origin.
Yu kant git rooster to pay emmy at
tenshun tew yung one, they spend
their time in Growing, strutting, and oc-
casionally find worm, which they make
remarkable fuss over, calling up theil
wives from a distance, apparently tew
treat them, but just az the hens git thare
this elegant and elaborate cuss bends
over and gobbles up the morsel.
Just like a man for all the aoorld.