Speaking of poultry, Josh Killings says their is a theory that roosters are descended from the human race. Asa proof, he says— * “Roosters do but Very little household work, they won’t lay enny eggs, nor try to hatch enny, nor see tow the young ones; this satisfys me that there is some truth in the mythologikal ackount ov the rooster’s fust origin, Yu kant get a rooster to pay enny attenshun to a young one; they spend their time in crowing, strutting, and occasionally find a worm, which they make a remarkable fuss over, calling up their wives from a distance, apparently to treat then; but Just as the hen gets there, this elegant arid e>aborate cuss bends over and gobbels up the morsel. , Just lilts a man for all the Wild.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 368, 14 May 1869, Page 2
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