| Show AN intelligent ROOSTER he la deaf and bumb but I 1 able take blown part A gentleman hujing on the outskirts ot near Black aock own a curiosity the like of which baman never dreamed of says the buffalo 11 isa deaf and dumb roosters roo full grown brilliantly brodil leghorn chanticleer that has lost his voice can neither crow nor cluck nor make any othar audible sound with his vocal apparatus does not wake up the neighborhood a t fire in with an everlasting cock a doodle doo does not giver an alarms hawks every time a black cloud crosses the sun but is still as much the lord of the chicken park as ever se has not always been thus up to the lime he was eight months old he was as noisy sany young rooster need be then he got his head caught in a in such a way as to manla his neck and probably tear out the vocal cords loosing the power io make souna he evidently forgot how to hear them at least now at the age of thre eyears he gives no evidence of hearings but he makes his eyes answer for ears and voice too if any one wanted proof that he was really deaf and dumb those eyes would be convincing there is nothing he does not see when the first glow of sunrise appears he begins the duties of the day by rousing ah the rest of the fowls in the hen his own way he walks around one and kicks it off its perch there AS no resisting such an in acup its much more effective than crowing when he gets a challenge to figh tha does not atop to announce what he can do he goes and does it and his battles are all victorious the most remarkable thing about r is the fact though eaf he can dis tul wen an admonition to shop and a request to come to amner how heroes aas a mystery apt ft is beherec bythe by the motions of the aps and general attitude of th person dresses him A coarse of instruction in a deaf and dumb institute is all this rooster needs to ith his spurs |
