The Rooster.

Hastings Standard, Issue 5, 1 May 1896, Page 4

The Rooster.

As the Irish would say, the rooster is the masculine patriarch of the gallinaceous domestic feathered bipeds. This explains exactly the status of the rooster in the feathered kingdom. This useful fowl is called a rooster, because he roosts. If he were not a rooster he would he a sitter, and if he were a sitter, he would he a hatcher, and from thence Ijecome a maternal head of the flock, and this would change his sex, which would as a natural result stop all father multiplication of the gallinaceous tribe. -Hence ok iff- —itv the rooster lias got to he a rooster. • A roo-ii r and a typical Southerner are almost indistinguishable, as both are. composed mainly of spurs. Again the rooster resembles man in the fact that he lias his cock-tail every morning.

Like many good temperance men. he holds it behind him. He is an early bird, and catches the worm. To stimulate bis llock to renewed energy, he calls them up to have them see his find, and then to show no partiality among his wives, he eats the worm himself.

Ail roosters practice polygamy. stud even go so far as to invadi> the sanctity of their neighl>oiirs* homes, but they get out suddenly between the pickets, if the other rooster is the I>. -t lighter. This is an I'mwriucn law in roosierdoin. Tho eh>" f delight. of :i n»:i!tCK>i|s !I » I- • >*" ; ; ' • • * .Ml. Stll'lt (•.»»»!••!> if •• »•>•— • >«i ;m>> In •• «'■ -gi ' Soiu- JiicUli, .'liiigy tvilka rooster, because a rooster eats but cannot lay in return for the corn. Consequently they do not wish to promote vice and laziness, and will not support the rooster. This is a great snap for the rooster next door.— American paper.