Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1869-01-02
Josh Billings on BOOSTERS.

There is not on the whole horiziD of live ma
ture more pleasing and Strengthening study.
than the rooster. This remarkable package of
feathers has been for ages food for philosophc
thought, as well as the simple curious mind.
They belong to the feathered sex denomnated
poultry, and are the husbands of many wives
In Utah it is considered disgrace to speak dis
respectful of a rooster. Brigham Young's coat
of arms is a rooster, in full blast, Growing till he
is almost bent over double backward
The flesh of the rooster is very similar to the
flesh of the hen it is hard to distinguish the
difference, especially in your soup. BOOSTERS
are the pugilists among domestic birds they
wear the belt; and having no shoulder to strike
from, they strike from the heel.
BOOSTERS, according to profane history if my
education remembers me right, were formerly
man, who came suddenly upon one of the
heather gods at time when he was not pre-
pared to receive company, and was for that Of
Tense, rebuilt over into the first rooster and was
forever afterward destined to crow, as a kind of
warning. This change from a man accounts for
their fighting abilities, and for their politeness
to the hens. There is nothing in a man that a
woman admires more than his readiness and
ability to smash another fellow, and it is just so
with a hen. When a rooster gets licked the
hens all march off with the other rooster if he
amt half so big or handsome. 1t is pluck that
wins a hen or a woman.
There is great variety of pedigree among the
rooster race, but for steady business give me the
Old-fashloned dominique Observation-Disclosures
and when they walk they always strut and their
bosoms stick out like an alderman's abdominal
cupboard. This breed is hawk-colored, and has
a crooked tail on them, arched like a sickle, and
as full of feathers as a new buster.
But when you come right down to grit and
throw all outside influences overheard, there
ain nothing on earth or under it, that out
style, out-step out-brag, or out,pluck a regular
bantam rooster. They always put me in mind
OF a very small dandy practicing before look
ing-glass. They don't weigh more than thirty
ounces, but they make as much fuss as ton.
have seen them trying, to pick quarrel with
two-horse wagon, and don't think they would
hesitate to fight meeting house if it was the
least sassy to them
1t seems to be necessary that there should be
something outrageous in everything, to show us
where propriety ends and improperly begins.
This is the melancholy case in the rooster affair
for we have the shanghai rooster-the greatest
outrage, in my opinion, ever committed in the
annals of poultry. These critters are the camels
among fowls. They NOPE around the barnyard,
tipping over the hay-racks and stepping on the
young goslings, and every and then they
crow confusion.
If anybody should give me a shanghai rooster,
l would halter him and keep him in a box-stall,
and feed him on cut feed, and if he would work
kind in a harness, all right if not, l would
butcher him the first wet day, and salt him down
to give the poor But there amt nobody going
to give me one of this breed-not if | know it.
! don't think there is a man on earth mean
enough to do it.
BOOSTERS do very little household work They
won't lay any eggs, nor try to hatch any, nor
see to the young ones. This satisfies me that
there is some truth in the NEUROLOGICAL account
of the ROSTERS first origin. You can't get
rooster to pay any attention to young one.
They spend their time in Growing and strutting,
and occasionally find worm, which they make
a remarkable fuss over, calling up their wives
from distance, apparently to treat them but
just the hens get there, this elegant and elab-
crate cuss bends over and gobbles up the morsel
UJust like a man for all the world