The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1869-06-18
ROOsters.
, PROF.. j. billings.

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90 CANA. by PROF. j. BILLINGS. al.
THERE is not on the whole horizon of
live natur more pleasing and strength
ming study than the rooster. This re- I.
markable package of feathers has bin
for ages food for philosphik as we'll as
the simple curious mind. They belong
tew the feathered sekt denominated
poultry, and are the husband of menny
wives. In Utah 1t is considered a dis
grace tew speak disrespeckful ov .
rooster: Brigham Young's coat ov arms
is a rooster, in full blast, Growing till he
is almost bent over double backward.
The flesh ov the rooster is very SINH
lar tew the flesh of the hen; 1t is hard
tew distinguished the difference, espec-
tally in yure soop. BOOSTERS are the
pugilists among the domestik burds;
they wear the belt, and having no
shoulder tew strike from, they strike
from the heel. A.ls.aiii.. '1
BOOSTERS, according to profane history
If mi edukashun remembers me right,
were formerlya man, who cum sudden
ly upon one ov the heather gods, at n
time when he wasn't prepared tew sec
company, and wuz, for that offense, re-
built over into the fust rooster, and
wuz forever afterwards destined tew
crow,az a kind Of warning. This change
from man akounts for their fighting
abilities, and for their politeness. tew
the hens. Thare is nothing in a man
that woman admires more than his
reddyness and ability to smash another
fellow, and it IL jiss so with hen.
When a rooster gifts licked, the hens all
march oph with the other rooster, if he
ant kaff so big or handsome.
Itiz pluck that wins hen or wo-
man.
Thare is q crate variety of pedigree
among the rooster race, but for stiddy
bizness give me the old fashioned dom
Unique rooster, short legged, and when
they walk, they always strut, and their
buzzums stick out like an alderman's
abdominal cupboard. This breed liz
hawk-colored, and haz crooked tail on
them arched like sickel, and as full Of
| 1eatnefS az new uuSter.
But when you come right down to
grit and throw all outside influences
overheard, there aint anything on earth
nor under it, that can out-style, out
step, out-brag, or out-pluck "a regular
Bantum rooster.
| They alwus put me in mind ov a very
small dandy, practicing before look
ing-glass.
/ They don't way more than thirty
ounces, but they make az much fuss az
tun. have seen them trying to pick
aquarrel with two hoss Wagon, and
don't think they would hesitate to
| fight a meeting house fit waz the least
sassy to them. - --
1t seems tew be necessary that there
should be sumthing outrageous in every
thing tew show us where propriety and
impropriety begins. This IL the mel
ancholly case in the rooster affair, for
we have the shanghi rooster, the great
est outrage, in my opinyun, ever com,
mitted in the annals of poultry. JtF
| These kritters are the eamels anung
fowls, they NOPE around the barnyard,
tipping over the hay racks and stepping
ON the yung goslins, and every now
and then crow confusion. iof veIrtl.s
| If emmy body should give me shang-
hi rooster, should halter him and keep
him in box stall, and feed him on cut
feed, and if he would be kind in har-
ness, all right, if not, would butcher
him the fust wet day that cum, and salt
him down tew give tew the poor.
| But there aint nobody going tew
give me one ov this breed, knot ifI
know it; don't think there IL man
ON earth mean enough tew do it. .IIf
Roosters do but very little houshold
work; they wont lay emmy eggs, nor
try to hatch emmy, nor see TO the yung
ones, this satisfys me that thare is some
truth in the NEUROLOGICAL akount of the
ROSTERS first origin.
Yu kant git rooster to pay any at
tenshun to yung one; they spend their
time in growing, strutting, and occaS
ionally find worm which they make
a remarkable fuss over, call up their
wives from a distance, apparently to
treat them, but just as the hens get
thare, this elegant and elaborate cuss
bends over and gobbles up the morsel.
/ Just like man, for all the world.
. RlcHMoND, Va, has horror of its
own. 1t has been discovered that me-
groes have been collecting and selling
TO bone-burners the bones of Confeder-
ate and Union soldiers buried on the
bloody battlefield OF For Harrison. A
committee of Richmond gentlemen
went down to the front on Friday last.
They found on the field tho skeletons OF
; from seventy-five to one hundred bodies,
!, lexcept the skulls, which they gathered
/ hrn.ahf IN HnlfuxyAA1 fOr Tl-