The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-02-18

R0Osterss
By prof !. biIllnsA
Thare is not on the whole horizon
Ov live RatUr a more pleazing and
Strengthening study than the Roos-
I fer, This remarkable package of
feathers has bin for ages food for phil
osophik as well as the simple curious
mind. They belong tew the feathered
sekt denominated poultry, and are
the husbands of menny wives. In
Utah it is konsidered a disgrace tew
speak disrespeckfu1 ov a rooster.
Brigham YOung's coat ov arms is a
rooster, in full blast, growing till he is
almost bent over double backwards.
CsThe flesh oy the. rooster is very SIM
liar tew the flesh ov the hen; it is
hard teW distinguish the diffence, es-
peshly in yure soup. Roosters are the
pugilis.tSS. :; 9 ;;::.41iio the domestik burds;
they wear the belt, and iIaViiasSsse no
shoulder to strike from, they strike
from the heel, .....,-. as- p ~. -,,
bra Boosters, according to prOfane his
tory, if mi edukashun remembers me
right, were formerly man, who come
suddenly upon one Ov the heather
gods, at a time when he want prepar-
ed tew see company and .waz, for
that offensey rebuilt over into the first
rooster, and waz forever afterwards
destined to crow, as. a kind Ov warn
ling. This change from a man
/ akounts for their lighting abilities, and
for their. politeness tew the hens
Thare is nothing in manthat q woman
admires, more than his readiness and
ability teW smash another fellows
nose, and it IL jiss so with a hen.
When a rooster gets licked, the hens
all march Oph with the other rooster,
if he aint haff so big or handsome.
1t is pluck that wins hen or a
woman.
Thare il a great variety of pedigree
among the rooster race, but for stiddy
biziHess give me the old fashioned
dominique rooster short legged, and
when they walk, they always strut,
and their buzzums stick out like an
aIderman's abdominal cupboard. This
breed is haWk-cOlored, and has a crook
ed tail on them arched like a sickle,
and as full NV feathers az a new duster.
But when you come right down to
grit, and throw all outside influence
overheard, there aint nothing on earth,
MOI. under it, that can Out-stile, out
step, Out-brag, Or out-pluck a regular
Bantum rooster.
They alwus put me in mind ov a
very small dandy, practiUing before
looking-glass.
They don't weigh more than thirty
ounces, but they make ez much fuss
as a tun. I have seen them trying
/ teW pick quarrel with a two hOss
wagon, and don {. think they would
fhesitate to fight a meeting house If it
waz the least sassy to them.
It seems to be necessary that there
should be sumthing outrageous in ev-
erything, to show US where propriety
lends and impropriety begins. This
il the melancholy case in the rooster
affair, for we have the shanghi rooster,
the greatest outrage, in my opinion,
lever committed in stheandals of pOul-
try.
These kEitters are the camels among
fowls; they NOPE around the barn
yard 'tipping over the hay racks and
stepping on the young gosIins, and
every now and then crow confusion.
IF emmy body should give me e
shanghi rooster, should halter him,
land keep him in box stall, and feed
him on cut feed, and if he would work
kind ina harness, all right, if not, I
would butcher him the fust wet day.
thatcum, and salt him down to give
tO4he poor. q 80 ~ = ,@''
But thare aint nobody a going to
give me one ov this breed, knot if /
know 1t. IfdOn't think thare il a man
on earth mean enuff to do it.
Boosters do bat very. little house
hold work; they wont lay emmy eggs,
nor try to hatch emmy, nor see to the
young ones; this satisfies me that
thare is some truth in the mythOlOg-
ikal akount gV the rooster'sfast origin.
You kant gil a rooster to pay emmy
attenshun to young one; they spend
their time in Growing; strutting and
occasiOnly findra worm, which they
make a remarkable fuss over, calling
up their wives from a distance, appar-
entity to treat them, but just az the
lhens git there, this elegant and elab-
orate cuss bends over and gObbIes up
/ the mOrsel. -r ?. ..rr- .sa
list like man for all the t0oryd!