The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-24
a Phenomenal
Rooster
BY Max AdeIer.

Perhaps you never noticed tina
rooster, said Cooley pointing TO
chicken on the fence between his ware
and mine; very likely you never pai,
much attention to him! but dom
care In what light you look at him, III,
more you study him the more talented
he appears. You talk about youl
American iggles and birds of freedom
and all such slush as that, but that in
signiiicant'looSing chicken yonder kin
give any of them 20 points ana poke,
them at the first shot. / pledge you
my word that that rooster has flne
traits of character thatd adorn almost
any walk Of life. He's. just lovely, |
don't say anything about his voice.
| That's neither here nor there. All.
though II you're going to allude to that
subject, | just want to mention that,
as far as growing Is concerned. he kin
begin earlier, knock off later. and reel
OF more crows in minute than any
other rooster in the state.
Most chickens are kinder stupid
but what ! like abost him Is. that he is
sympathetic; he has feeling. know
last fall that my shanghai hen was
taken sick while she was trying to
hatch out some eggs, and that rooster
was 80 compassionate that he used 70
go in, and sit on that nest for hours,
trying to help her out so that she
could 80 OFF recreating after exercise.
And when she died, he turned right In
and took charge of things; seemed to
feel that he ought to be a father to
those unborn little orphans, and he
straddled around over those eggs for
ever so long as graceful as a mer-
maid!
He never got much satisfaction out
Of it, though. Most of them were duck
eggs, and 1t seemed to kinder cut him
up when he looked at those birds after
they Matched out He took 1t to heart
and appeared to feel low-spirited and
afflicted He would go off and stand
BY himself-stand on one leg in a cor
ner Of the fence and let his mind brood |
ever bits troubles until you'd pity him,
y dissusted him to think how the job /
turned out
Now you wouldn't think such
chicken as that would have much /
courage, but as true as I'm telling yon
he'd Just as lief fight a wagonload Of
tigers as to 60 TO sleep He cot 4 no.
ion in his head that that rooster over
here on the Baptist church steopla
was alive, and he couldn't bear 10
hink that it was up there sailing
tround and putting on airs over him
md COED many times I've seen him
rF to fly IN at ii SOS To arrange
light When he found lie couldn't
make ii, he'd crow at the Baptist
ooster and dare it to come down, and
j last, when all his efforts were use
ess, would you believe that rooster
me day tackled the sexton as the !
next friend, and drove
is spurs so far into the sections
hanks that he walked on crutches for
lre'n a week, | never saw a mere ]
hicken have such fine instincts ana :
lch pluck. \
He IL a splendid fighter, anyway
lst as he stands. And so intelligent q
20. Why. he had a little fuss with !,
iiman's Poland rooster here some !
me back, and instead of going at him :
ad taking the chances of getting
oked that chicken actual. put him q
II into training, ate nothing but corn.
ok regular exercise, went to roost :
rly, took a cold bath every morning, i
I'd got a friendly pullet to rub him
'wn with a corncob 1t vas wonder M
4 and in week or so he was all n
me and muscle, and he hickered over u
G fence after Pitman's rooster and
Mt him cahooting into the next world =
the fourth round. n
Il never saw such a rooster for intel
,tual culture. Now do you know n
lieye that chicken actually takes an
-erest in politics! Oh, you may q
Ugh, but last fall. during the cam 4
ign, he was so excited about some "a
Ing that he couldn't eat, and the
5ht they had the Democratic mass u
seting here he roasted on the chan
Tier in the hall. and every time Cen.
Her made 2 good r~'at ' chieken
a7i Gan q 9 much y
eay ITEMS nly sentiments a
d on the day of the parade he s.
ned out and followed the last wag- 81
keeping step with the music, and
yer dropping out Of line but once. II
en- he stopped to fight a Republican y
ister belonging to old Byefly, who
s on the Republican ticket for coun-
And in the morning.
er the Democrats won. he just got
the fence out here and crowed so
.iferousIy you could've heard hlmi
oss the river, particularly when I
up the American flag and read the I q
sst returns.
Yes, sir. Now I know you'll think
ridiculous when ] tell you, but it's
actual fact that that very day my All
ghter was playing the 'Star-span-
Banner on the piano. and that III
5ter. when he heard it, came scud-
Z into the parlOr. and after Tipping e