Show V A evirt certain aiu HANDS iii LY SOLD OLD otalie keeper on third street has bas long ong owned a celebrated fighting cock a hero of many litany I 1 latt attles lea and invincible in tile eyes of its itta owner A few days daya ago a stray rooster ap patently of tile the dunghill ili breed was observed picking up stray kernels of barley near the said proprietors prend premises ses and aching for a fight lie he invited sume some of liia his neighbors to help d rive drive tho the stray chicken into his stable help nie me drive that fe fellow in and see bee my rooster ki kill kirn 71 aid it ho the request was waa complied with and tile the fight sol soon commenced int need and while it was MIS 9 go fo ingon tile the outsiders tapped 7 all the money molley offered on oil ole he l resi result lit amounting to several dollars the money was I 1 hardly ardly up tip beal before ore the fight was concluded and the stable proprietors rooster was killed imagine the grief and buran re of the owner as lie ho picked up tip his hig pet and examined his li bleeding leeding head 1 I would have bave lost loat more money than I 1 have said lie he that no ito common dunghill could have served nerved you thus and A nd here comes in hi the laugh tile the neighbors who so kindly helped to drive in the duli dunghill ghib bad previously brought the rooster ts bere rere and anticipating precisely what had followed tile the victorious rooster way was no dunghill but oil one of the most powerful ganie game cocks in ilie lie city the boys pa played ayed for even 11 and are now dow crowing 11 appeal |