Show BIRD IR SCIENCE v These are arc the mornings when th the robins get up upon upon upon on the peaks of the roofs roofs' or in the trees and have their concerts beginning about 4 a. a m. m Sometimes it is a solo sometimes it is a full chorus and as animal life generally is imitative there are arc a few roosters who make it a point to try to down the robins Ecclesiastes says the old rise at the voice of the bird The roosters rooster's early crow disturbs them For the tho benefit of these we beg to say that the story comes down from a most authentic source that the great Herbert Spencer had a pet rooster which he believed was the finest rooster in all England but buthe buthe buthe he had the proclivities of just a common fowl an and liked hiked to crow in the morning Spencer could not afford afford af at- ford lord to kill him and so he dropped upon the happy of tying his wings and after that the bird was silent We Vc advise ladies and gentlemen who have havo roosters roosters roost roost- ers and who read this notice that they had better Pl put t them in dark rooms at night because the man who goes out and ties lies the wings of a rooster to make him quit crowing if he is an ordinary man and the rooster i is not his property the temptation is too great after the wings are arc once tied tied the the rooster is prone to follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low lw him home |