World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-06-26
The BADGER Column
BEENIT ,T+S.
June 18th. 1911.

Dl HIS MAJESTY, LiiC
Cock. Bro. Ranslow is genius
q gentleman and a scholar, and
every time he opens his lips
words of superamuabel wisdom
flow out like a gushing Alpine
torrent. We all hope that he
will not deprive the readers of
the CkESsET Of his weakly ohu-
sions on the various foibles and
Marbles Of mankind.
| feel that this question OF
chicken, the part 1t has played
in the world, it's habits, its &C.
embellishments, it's functions, it's
motives, it's results, ct cetera,
should be illuminated as splendid.
ierously as possible, for Bro,
Cook and several others are all
wrapped up in it. Bro. Il has
observed a few things, such as
aligators and rooster pecked
wives for example, and his ludg-
ment on these subjects is per.
haps sound, But when scientific
processes like the growing OF u
cock are to be explained for the
benefit OF mankind, his errors
are colossal, and he simply tells
through his hat and a stoyepipe
hat at that.
| wish to submit four argu-
ments, Mr.. Editor, any one Of
which will be sufficient Cor us to
prove quod est demoushandumer
that is that rooster crows from
instinct and not observation.
The first OF these | will call an,
argument from antiquity,
The second post delGyian ar
gumeut.
The third an argument from
natural rejection.
The fourth an argument from
natural construction,
| |, The Antiquity argument.
| For moment, kind readers, let
! your minds revert back 10 crca.
ton, TO a time before a case of
:, lhcnpecked, hendiades, or incu-
, baton had been heard Of, we arc
: TOLD that on the fifth day of ere.
: alton the cock was made and it is
( easy to conceive of time auter-
, ior to his first GROWING. Being
! the first of his prolific race, he of
course had no ancestors to pat
tern after. Now there being no
! other cock to initiate, can Bro,
G Il, claim that the first BOOSTERS
t initial effort to assert himself
: was called forth by the force of
4 example? No! my dear Brother,
!. on the morning OF the sixth day
J, soon after Adam and Eve we're
created, .his BOOSTERS majesty
D hoped upon tie fence, tapped
L his wings, and gave a vigorous
Y full grown crow. So natural
S did it sound to Adam that he
t reminded Eve that it was high
q time for her to get up and stir
+ the pancakes
j. Bro, Il. states that We do not
l. know how the first coch happen
c ed to crow. He is beaten right
c here. His mind reveals an APP
$ palling absence of continuity of
|. logical reason. We do know. He
crowed from instinct, Of course.
How else could the first roos.
: ter crow?
Bro. Il, illustrates from con.
ditions in Florida. He says that
a rooster in the Northern part of
his state first starts to crow, aud
THAT others take it up, and that
there is the whole Key.Wcstion:
But what about that first cock?
And what about the other forty
seven cocks who start the music
in TIC other forty .seven states?
Yes my dear frinds, having
established the tact that the, ORR
ginal cock crowed FROM instinct.
we may logically utllrm Of the
whole class of cocks.
What was true Of this prime
val cock--We reason from The
particular to the universal, for
what one ccc', NAV devise al