Show NOT PERFECT PERFECT A itam CLOCKS Roo roosters stars salute to the roy rosy morn Is variable lincoln a saying you can fool some ot of the people all the time la Is tied fled by the coincon common belief that the crowing of a cock at night indicates the near approach of 0 da dawn daan an this no tion Is prevalent not only among flat dwellers but to some extent among suburban and country folk it Is true that these feathered alarm clocks are b busiest u test for the hour houi that precedes day light but a man who had an appoint mint ment to go fishing at sunrise and arose when lie he heard a rooster might make a serious verlois I 1 mistake A racing man had a rooster at his home in bensonhurst Benson Henson hurst brooklyn Brool Nn that had a remarkable accurate sense of time across the street from the man 3 home is ih a summer hotel the mos host bof of the guests were vere more moi accustomed to city than to couo coun try noises and some or of them were v ere awakened when the cock crowed sev eral tunes times it was nas noticed that tile the noise came at ju just s t 3 1 15 this elih odd fact was spoken of on tha ihn hotel veranda and when tire lie guests heard the blid bird thereafter ill lie ea usually looked at their watches viatches to see if lie was vas on time night after night lie he was light to the minute once a guest looked at lift ills timepiece and it indicated only 3 14 guess I 1 must br be a little slow be bald d to himself ile he bad come to have baie M more ore faith in the mechanism of nature th than ail of man it was mas the ank which w was as wrong wione homeier ho neier for several per sons spoke of it in the morning this continued for mouths months although the was of course later each day da shakespeare s phrase the bird of dawning certainly did sot not fit this chanticleer chantl cloer |