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Show ROOSTER ON A TRAIN FEATHERED WANDERER MAKES FUN FOR PASSENGERS. Dignified Sleeper Made Use of as a Perch for the King of the Barnyard Stopping of the Express Ends His Antics. Prof. George T. Powell, director of the Agricultural School at Briarcliff, Westchester county, tells the following follow-ing story: "I had been lecturing In northeast Pennsylvania, during the day, and late in the evening I arrived at Dunkirk, Dun-kirk, where I had to change cars for Buffalo. There were many passengers in the car, and noprly all were asleep. Being very tired, I took a seat, leaned back and had just fallen into a doze, when I was awakened by the loud chuckle of a rooster. Arousing myself my-self and looking around, there, greatly to my surprise, was a large game rooster, si nil ting up the aisle, with head erect, and every few seconds letting forth such a loud chuckle that In a moment nearly every one in the car was awal.e and craning their heads in great astonishment at the unusual intruder. "The rooster strutted wonderingly up the aisle until he came to a large, portly man, who was leaning back, with legs crossed, one knee as high as Jils head find stjl) asleep. He took only one look and then Hew up, alighting alight-ing on the conspicuous knee. At this juncture every one else in the car became Intensely Interested, and nearly near-ly all the passengers were on their feet, anxious to see what the man would do when he awoke. It needed only one more sound from the rooster before the stout man opened his eyes, and with a sudden start backward he threw up his hands. In astonishment, while roars of laughter cauio from every part of the car. "This excitement was too much for the rooster, and with one jump he flew up on the bell rope, which sagged down under his weight, and the Chi-rago Chi-rago express, thundering a'ong at fifty miles an hour, came to such a sudden stop that many pqssengers were thrown from their feet. n a confused con-fused muddle. The train had no more than come to a stop when .in irate conductor came hurriedly into the car and demanded who had stopped the train, lly that time the owner of the rooster hud awakened, an.!, taking in the situation, reached up and gathered gath-ered in (he wandering bird, -estorlng him to the bag from which he bad escaped, and which contained two more fowls that had not fourd their way out. "The merriment was too great for nny sleep from there to Buffalo. A man from Chicago who stopped at the hotel with me. said: '1 nave been traveling trav-eling for thirty years, but that is the funniest incident I ever saw.' "New York Tribune. |