Show S A W nr IN This locater Needed X eel Son Some Country Air to Brace lint Him Tip Up Chicago Post Poet By Fly some chance a crowd of down do downstate n state Mate politicians in Judge Judee Shermans headquarters into gossip about i game chickens the other day when Cherry Cherr came caine into the room Whenever i see a game chicken I think of something which happened to tome toI me tue when I 1 WitS was a young shaver said I he ht aa as he took a seat on Oft the Ue couch O My mother was very fond of poul pool poultry try and had several teral hundred fowls of II high and low lov degree One day I went to town and at the store ran across Doc Doe Richards Ive got a rooster for tor you and better take him out to the farm when who you go home said d he be heto beto heto to me but I pay much atten attention attention tion tto tp to 0 what h hf k said ld for 1 I had other things on my mind As AI A l I was vu ing away however be tame came out with witha a bag in his ble hand He Ut put the bag be Inthe the back baek of the buggy bURY remarking Theres There your chicken while I said id Much M b obliged and aDd started for home homeS S It was wu about dinner time tune when I got cot home and started for tot the house bou e forgetting all about Doc Doe Richards present Then I remembered and went back It was wu a little red rooster with an aD eye like a needle and full tull of gin clo ginger cloP gee ger Being Heinl in a hurry Iturry I dropped dlO him over the fence in the chicken yard and aad went to dinner Ten minutes later laterI I heard a terrific clatter from the neighborhood of the barn bam but thought It H Was only oaly a hawk bawl scaring some of the tile lien hens The racket kept up apt though and I went out to see what was w up upWell UpWell upWell Well sir air there was wu that little game gamecock gamecock cock chasing all the big Plymouth Rock Buff Bulf Cochin Wyandotte Stack black Spanish and every other kind of rooster around tIe the yard and aDd the tile feathers feat wen wert flying so ao you could scarcely I ne e arrow aroas a athe the enclosure The little brute hat had killed twelve of the finest t and biggest roosters ten in the flock and wa wad going for tor more Of course I J sneaked him out and aDd put pat him under a barrel aid aad it was wu well I did for my 18 mother would have ba e wrung his b hi neck had bad she JIbe ph got t hold of him atm As 8 it was wUi she nearly Dearly wrung mine mth mineI I took the game came chicken back ek to t n I Doc Deo Richards and told lila him what wt ni hi a i t j I happened ue He kept his hla face straight I and said Well I tell you ou Chat lit I thought the rooster was wu looking sort of or and that he be needed some country air to brace him hini up Then he be laughed and I can see lee now that tha tit it was flU all a Joke but it wi w s a long lone time Wore before I could figure out eat howk how bow he ht thought that little b w ta In feathers needed country air For a long lone time afterward the boys bop in tows town to would hall hail me IDe and aad say ay they bey wished I would take their sick aI sIe roster rooster out to the farm to o 0 recuperate erate |