Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-31
AN AMBITIOUS ROOSTER.
He Entertained Host of People from
Boston TO PHILADELPHIA.


When a Philadelphia boy returned home
fro1u his fathers New England farm, where
he had been several months, he carried
with him a young game rooster which had
been his care literally alb ovo, for he had
seen the little chicken coma to life in an
incubator, and had made it his pet from
the first. Carefully packed in a basket,
young Chandelier began the journey. His
owner would trust him to no hands but
his own, aud deposited basket and bird
safely in his stateroom on the boat. In
proper season he gave his charge "A ROSTERS
supper, and at his own bedtime, seeing that
bis pet was well disposed for the night,
went to sleep to dream of the dear farm he
was leaving behind.
All went well till the first streak of
| daylight appeared Chandelier was not
l"house trained" and being proud of the
dusty, discordant crow he was just acqur-
ing, nature commanded him to herald the
dawn with true barnyard vigor
The first few peals fitted themselves
beautifully into the boys dreams of the
farm Soon a particularly strident crow
walked him completely, and left no doubt
III his mind that his pet was acting in a
very questionable manner. Growing on a
farm, even badly, may be worthy accom-
plshment, but in the stateroom of a sound
steamer, before the passengers want to get
up, it is quite another thing
Evidently the rooster felt more at home
than the boy, for he continued his clarion
call at frequent intervals with increasing
fervor.
The boy rolled out of his berth and tried
to awe the bird by peering sternly into the
basket. For a moment Chanticeer was
ci lnrpa6 h1t tho boy's ara uoc mot lion
tanners, and even as he looked the bird
crowed again. At a rough count this was
the tenth peal.
Murmurings of discomfort could be heard
from the surrounding staterooms. "Wring
that birds neck" called out one sleepy
traveller A better natured man was heard
to laugh, and more distant came the words,
in uudoubted Yankee twang
oval, | swan, if | didn't think | was
back in the state of Maine, and chore time
was here"
Strangulaton seemed the only cure and
that the boy would not have inflicted at
the command of the captain and all the
boats officers. The rooster kept on crow
ing, and the funny side of the affair struck
its owner more and more forcibly. AS he
chuckled the rage of his neighbors in
creased, and he soon heard sounds of get
ting up, dressing and indignant protests
against travelling with a barnyard The
angry man said;
There's no more rest in this part of the
boat, and I'd rather shiver on deck as we
go through He'll Gate than hear such a
din"
Stateroom doors slammed. The rooster
had won the day, early as it was. In the
train from New York to Philadelphia the
growing went on, and when they reached
the Broad Street station, the tally the boy
had carefully kept since the tenth outburst
showed the alarming record of III crows.
1t was not altogether "bad fun" for the
boy, but it was after all somewhat embar-
RAISING, and he decided he would not man.
age another personally conducted tour"
with a young rooster as chief traveller
Youths Companion.