The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-05-29
GOT A ROOSTER DRUNK
Experiments With Whisky and
the King of the Barn Yard.
A Roaring Spree Follows, in Which Sir
Chanticleer Cuts Many Very
Amusing Capers.
From the Chicago Mail.


"a drunken rooster is about as comical
thing as ever I saw" said gentleman to a re-
porter for the Mail the other day. "a dog is
funny when he is full, but not as funny as Sir
Chanticleer.
"You never saw a rooster on a tear? No; I
guess not. Not many have. BOOSTERS, as a
rule, do not go ont with the boys and paint the
town, though many of them have noses that
indicate it. In fact, never knew of but one
rooster that got full, and guess he wouldn't
have got that way of his own free will. When
/ was q lad down in the country there were
lots of wild geese, and there was a popular SUI
perstition among the yokels and pot-hunters
that the best way to catch the willy geese was
to get 'em full, and then walk right up to EN-
and wiring their necks. Some fellow invented
a story that one time he soaked lot of shelled
corn in liquid moonshine, placed it at the edge
of the pond where the old gray goose sat smil-
ing at the gander,' and had the pleasure of see
ing the grain gobbled up with ayidity. Pretty
soon the effect was seen in the tipsy goings-on
OF the foolish geese, which gabbled to each
other in maudlin style and finally relapsed into
drunken stupor, in which they were surprised
and INCREASINGLY captured by the bad man
who got 'em tight.
"Well, as little pitcher with big ears,
took that yarn in, and one day when my father
and mother were at church determined to
try the plan. l sneaked the snake medicine
from the top shelf of the clothes-press, shelled
about four or five ears of bloody butcher and
put it to soak When the corn had absorbed
reasonable quantity of the stuff l took it
down and scattered it near the slough, along
which there was always a good many geese and
ducks. | sat in~hiding in the grass watching
Developments, but either the geese were not
hungry, or they were all prohbtionists, for
they didn't even so much as taste the dainty
dish had prepared for them.
II lay there for three or four hours, hoping
that some fool goose would eat the corn and
get roaring drunk, but finally gave up and
went to the house, full of doubt as to the We
racity of the man who had said he had caught
geese by getting 'em tight. l was ready to
class him with the fellow VINO some wears be-
fore, had told me L could catch birds by sprink-
ling salt on their tails. 1 was wet, hungry and
disguised, but it occurred to me, as 1
warmed myself by the kitchen stove, that
| might test the possibility of getting geese
drunk by experimenting on q chicken. The
thought was an inspiration, and I hastily ran
down our big dominick rooster and carried him
into the kitchen, where / spread out some of
the bug-iuiced corn, hoping he would eat it,
but he didn't. He wouldn't look at it. l was
not to be outdone, so got my little brother to
hold him and poked about a pint of the corn
down his throat, very much to his indignation
and alarm. expected to see him tight IN o
minute, but the corn didn't seem to affect him
appreciablY; and so. after little while got
teaspoon, and my brother holding the chickens
mouth open, [ began to dose him with the
clear whisky. I must have given the poor bird
t least gill, and the effect was immediate.
AS soon as he was let loose he Strengthened
himself up with great gravity and some effort
shaking out his ruflled plumage with elaborate
care He was not exactly steady on his legs
but he managed to assume an attitude of up
right dignity and began to look around, mean
while CLICKING to himself with tone of con-
scious Importance. Seeing the window, he
concluded to go out, and stepped toward it,
raising his feet away up as though walking
through high stubble Pausing two or three
yards away he balanced himself
with prodigious deliberation, craned his
neck two Or three times; as if itwefe getting
dark, and flew. But he missed the window
and fell Sprawling on the fioor Ithen opened
the door and he went out on the porch. He
was getting fuller every minute, and he stem
ped higher and higher the drunken he got
Getting into the open air he kind O braeed up.
surveyed the brethren and sisters that were
kicking and scratching around in the yard
and then walked straight toward them. He
looked nightly amused, and it seemed as
though he was laughing. He didn't notice
that the porch was two feet from the ground
and so stepped right of and spraWled in the
mud. Getting up, he shook himself and
marched over to bunch of chickens, where
he proceeded to cut an elaborate dash after the
manner OF ROSTERS, bat lie hadn't made half
the circle he set out to describe with his wing
when he keeied over fiat on his back. This
feat he attempted two or three times, failing
every time as at first. But presently
he saw ono of his rivals paying what
he evidently thought too ardent atten-
ton to one of the fair puliets, and so he set
out at mighty run, with feathers all on end
and blood in his eye. He stepped in hole,
went heels over head, got up, and ran in tie
wrong direction, the rival rooster meanwhile
looking on with amusement mingled with con-
tempt 1t then occurred to Sir Chanticeer
that he could whip any rooster on the prairie,
and so he concluded to get up on the fence and
notify all whom it might concern of the fact.
He threw back his head and started to crow,
but lest his balance and fell over on his back
Struggling to his feet, he made run for the
fence, Hoped his wings, and flew, dropping
short of the fence several feet He tried it
again, and again fell short. He went back and
took longer run, this time going clear over it
into the calf lot But, nothing daunted he
made another attempt, this time with success,
although he barely caught with his
scramble up by main strength. It was all
he could possibly do to balance himself ND
there but he finally got erect and prepared for
n crow that would make all the other 70 sters
take to the woods. He was evidently proud of
himself, and he proposed to assert his position
and importance. SO up went his head and out
Topped his wings and he began a crow that
might have been all that he intended it should
be if he hadn't gone over backward splash in
to the mud. where he lay, unable to rise. |
went ont and got the poor fellow, pumped
some water on him to clean his feathers, and
then fastened him up in the coal house, where
be lay for several hours as sick a rooster as
ever lived. l would like to know what he
thought of his little racket after he got sober,
and what the concensus of barnyard opinion
regarding his queer condition was. | dare say
he had trouble i'll squaring himself with the
gay young female dominckers. He always
seemed to look at me reproaehfully after that,
and never trusted himself very near to me. /
don't blame him."
Capt. Barclay Won a Prize in Lottery.
Capt. William III. Barclay, the pension agent
at Pittsburgh, has drawn a $4,000 prize from
The Louisiana State Lottery. He said: "Some
time ago l purchased two half tickets at So.
Yesterday was notified that ticket No. l., 6I5
had drawn the capital prize of Sl50,000, and as
that is the number of one of my half tickets,
am entitled to half that amount and S25 be-
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