The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-04-10
will repeat Dick. Dick. Dick. Dick.

will repeat Dick. Dick. Dick. Dick.
Dick. Dick
dick was Interrupted right there
by the cat. He had sneaked upstairs
to see what was going on. and the
sight of a chicken standing on IL chair
and peering about under the rays Of
the gaslight was too much of Il tempta-
ton. He bounded forward and seized
t.le bantam in his mouth and would
have been off with him had not Mr..
Bowser made Il quick kick.
by all the horn spoons ever made,
there will be murder done in this
house tonight he exclaimed as he
cid the rooster III to view.
No harm had been done. The little
fellow was game, and he crowed again,
while the cat, realizing that his oppor-
tunlty had come and gone. fed away
to be seen no more during the evening.
"You shouldn't have brought such Il
thing home" said Mrs. Bowser rs she
looked from the bird to the feathers,
scattered over the floor.
"What! can't bring a bantam roost-
er OF any other kind Of rooster into
my own house? Explain that remark,
Mrs. Bowser. l want to know wheth-
err I run this house or whether you and
that villainous old cat are bossing
things
"You know that a cat will always go
for a Bird" she replied.
"Then there'll be no cat around here.
I'll break his neck before I sleep to-
night"
Mrs. Bowser wisely maintained 81
lence. and after petting the bantam for
awhile Mr.. Bowser got in better tenn
per and observed:
A l said at the beginning, l should
like to make an experiment on this
bird. l see no reason why he shouldn't
learn to talk. He looks ten times as
bright as any parrot l ever saw. If a
Junk headed old parrot can chatter.
this rooster ought to be able to deliver
an oration."
"But has a rooster the same sort of
tongue as a parrot?"
Mrs. 6owser Doubtful.
1T is to be presumed so. Why should
nature give them different tongues?
An American has the same sort of
tongue as a Chinaman, hasn't hep"
"Well. you can experiment, and l
wish YOU luck. I'll see that the cat is
turned outdoors. and you can leave your
rooster in the box for the night"
Half an hour later the Bowsers went
upstairs to bed. Mr.. Bowser had tax
en- a deep scientific interest in the
rooster question, and he was repeating
the name Dick. Dick. Dick to himself
when he fell asleep. Two hours later
Mrs. Bowser awoke him with a nudge
and the EXPLANATIONS:
"For the lands sake, get up! Don't
you hear that queer noise?"
"W-what is it?'' he asked as he sat
up.
ITS either that all the water pipes
downstairs have burst or the furnace
Is getting ready to blow up"
Three minutes later he was down.
stairs, and the mystery was solved.
The noise was the bantam rooster
growing IN his box. He crowed as Mr.,
Bowser stood and looked at the box,
and he crowel as the cover was taken
off. 1t was a crow so shrill that it
stopped pedestrians on the street.
"What is it," called Mrs. Howscr
over the hanister. Don't YOU know
that people are stopping at the gate?"
ITS this Internal little rooster.
Ther he goes again. BY John, who
ever heard of Il rooster growing at this
hour of the night:"
"Perhaps he's learning to talk"
"And perhaps you get back into bed
and stay there"
Crow Awoke Bowser.
There was another long, shrill crow
from the bantam. and then Mr.. Bow
ser's fingers grasped his neck, and the
crow died away in a gurgle. The bird
was dead before the front door was
reached. and the three or four men ut
the gate caught sight of a man on the
front steps IS he gave the corpse Il
fling into their midst. Then the door
banged, and they said to each other:
Its a rooster. and he must have
brought the old man down with his
Growing, but he didn't give the little
Teller a fair show"
At the same time, upstairs in the
house, Mr.. Bowser was saying to Mrs.
Bowser:
II understand just how this thing
came about. You sneaked down while
l was asleep and stuck a hatpin Into
that poor bird. In the morning. Mrs.
Bowser-ln the morning we will con-
suit our respective lawyers and fix the
amount of alimonv." NJ. QUAD.