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4 I say, girls, 1 ' said a little blnceyecl, flaxen-haired boy on Second-' street yesterday, 4 let mo bike your candy and we’ll allplny chicken.’ * Is it nice T inquired a half dozen aix-year-olds in chorus, f 4 Nice ! you bet is, Let mo show you. Now, I’ll lay the candy down here on the stop, and you all go down there and come up. when you hear me call like a rooster.' The girls retreated and gathered in a group about fifteen feet on, while the boy got on his knees, with his head over the candy, and began to call and strut and flap his arms like a rooster’s wings. 4 Cluck, cluck, rat, tat, tap, cluck,’ and all the girls came running up and bent to pick up the candy, when the little fellow opened his mouth and took it all iu in one gulp. ‘Oh, you mean boy,' they cried, ‘ you have taken all our candy.’ 4 That’s cause I played rooster,’ said the boy, 4 roosters always - calls the hens up when he finds-a grain of corn, and then picks it up himself.’
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Dunstan Times, Issue 704, 15 October 1875, Page 3
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