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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 978, 19 November 1910, Page 15

In Belgium cock-crowing competitions are very popular among the working classes. Tho cocks aro ranged in cases, iiiul. markers note tho number of crows. The chanticleer who has sounded his shrill clarion the most times in an hour carries off tho prize. In a competition recently held at Poulseur, a cock gave voice 131 times. The blacksmith was hoarse, and feverish, too; Ho lay on his bed and "bellow"-ed tis"shoe." Tho dreadful cold that ho had got Had mado him feel—well, just "red-hot." I'd rather do threo years, said he, In prison walls for "forge"ry> But ho took Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, \Vkick put him on his "metal" sure. Advt. 24 Three thousand five hundred acres of valuable forest in the district of Yalta, Crimea, has been destroyed by fire. Two thousand troops raved tho rest of the forest by foiling a wide track ahead of the flames. Owing to the denso smoke, the men looked like black soldiers at tho end.' ■