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Show BOY WITH TRAINED ROOSTER Ten-Year-Old California Lad Earning His Way Through College With Aid of Pet Fowl. A ten-year-old California boy whose name Is Ralph, is earning money with which to educate himself, as his widowed mother has her hands full to take care of his small brothers and sisters. He has trained his prize Pryraooth Rock rooster to stand on a little platform plat-form fastened to his bicycle, which he uses In delivering newspapers and for various other errands. Whenever Ralph stops his wheel, the big rooster alights, flaps his wings and gives a vigorous crow. He then Ralph and His Rooster. picks around on the ground for a few moments and then flies back to his platform as Ralph moves off. Of course Ralph and Sammy always al-ways attract large crowds on these trips and the ambitious lad has had several hundreds of souvenir postal cards printed of himself and his rooster roos-ter which he sells to the people who collect around them whenever they stop. He hopes to make enough money la this way to take him through college. |