Show ROOSTER IS BY BIG bird lives on engine and travels everywhere with his foster motherland Mot herand chums winsted conn engine no 1899 has adopted a rooster her engin eer E H cozier swears she has and certainly the rooster Is devotedly attached to his ponderous foster mother wherever she goes there goes the rooster which although slightly disfigured Is still in the ring cozier says the proudest bird in the naugatuck atuck valley she or cozier has named the rooster hank he has gone to tor arington rington to bridgeport to new haven and other places hank sleeps in the engine cab nights at waterbury and Is becoming the pet of all the rail road men on the naugatuck atuck division of the new haven railroad when she was running past the turner manufactory at livingston a month ago cozier and his fireman J E downs of waterbury saw hank hopping and tumbling about near the tracks merciful men they halted her and picked up the rooster A train had run over him cut off a wing and so narrow was his escape part of his bill they nursed him tenderly and after his wounds healed hank would not leave her and those who had befriended him when she starts hank jumps on the coal in the tender and down Is mighty careful not to scoop him ui in a shovel and throw him in the fire box when she comes to a stand hank still the rooster hops cab am to the ground sometimes while hi chums oil her joints proud as hi is hank crows only when he 1 hungry then the engineer and file man share their food with him |