Evening star., 1897-08-05
TWELVE OF A KIND.
Round Dozen of Fowls md the Com.
motion They Caused.

motion They Caused.
There is a lady in the northwestern sec
ton Of the city who keeps boarding house,
select. of course, with only NICE refined
people to patronize it. The lady in ques-
ton was reared in the country and gets
much of the food which supplies her table
from the little town in which she resided
before coming to the capital.
Some time ago a poultry dealer in her
town wrote that he would sell her a num-
Der of chickens, about a dozen and half
at reduced rates, and the offer was accept
ed The money was sent and the chickens
were shipped here to Washington. After
they had arrived and been examined, it was
discovered that every one of them was a
rooster. They had rather dilapidated ap-
pearaEce, resembling a stag party whicn
has been on fishing or hunting trip with
liquid Accomplishments. Two or three OF
them looked as If they had been attempt
ing to settle the Cuban business, onhand,
between themselves. They were a fair
looking lot of lusty young ROSTERS how
ever. and the lady of the boarding house
was pretty we'll satisfied with her bargain
The roosters were placed in large chicken
house in the back part of the yard, while
the funny boarder amused himself and
made the hySterical young department girl
giggle almost uncea singly by making Jokes
about the mistress of the household having
established a monastery. bachelors hall,
and on
The neighborhood in which the boarding
house is located is a quiet one, and the
people having residences there are par
tfculariy fond of sleeping late Speaking OF
what happened the morning after the ar
rival of the ROSTERS, one of the boarders
in the house said to The Star man:
Il recollect 1 was dreaming that 1 was
an inmate of an enchanted barnyard, con-
demned to die terrible death by the
growing Of immense roosters. Then 1 had
haZy notion l was in a big pond, with
millions upon millions of bullfrogs, each
large as barrel, with a voice like a fog
horn, croaking about me. When / woke
fully found out 1t was the roosters in the
back yard.
Il never heard such a noise since / at
tended woran's rights convention. You
would rest bit another would take his
place with renewed vigor, and there was
no cessation. 1t was more like a congress
of Siren Whistles and Fife and Flute Anal
gamated Societies than anything that
could be ina agined''
The roosters kept 1t up morning after
morning until the neighbors complained
and the lady was worried almost into tears
She could not kill all the chickens at one
time. and their voices seemed to increase in
strength from practice. She finally hit upon
a plan which was successful, and account
ed for the scare which a colored gentleman
received ard which he described as fol-
lows:
"Dey is de funniest chickens 1 ever run
across up In q Dack yahd WuZ fOOlin
eroun today. Deed dey is. 1 nebber mag
gined no chickens like dem, suah Dey
must suttenly be new breed from some
form country. 1 dom want muffin ter do
wild dem kin Of fowls. Dey is all haid, and
look lax white balloonses movin' eroun' on
lafgs. Dey Is chickens all right ernufr kase
/ seed deir tail feathers.
I ain sayin' what I might er done II l
had er good chance and dey was natchul
chickens. but amt gwine ter monkey wild
no hoodooed fowls. honey. not on yer hoe
cake"
1t was no wonder that a strange impress
sion was made upon the mind OF the COL
ored marauder. for in order to stop their
around the head of each rooster so that
they carried their dark rooms with them
wherever they went, and a rooster will not
work his clarion In darkness