Show FV ar A r I 1 Q FARY t eky v gwm AUTHOR BONN FATHER ROOSTERS COMPLAINT it most certainly annoys me cock c doodle do it mott most certainly annoys tin noys in me e said father rooster booster what annoys you father rooster asked one of the little chickens it annoys me my child when I 1 hear the people grumbling oer the great ruts in ili the road what are ruts father rooster 9 asked the children so father tooer too Kr took the chicken for a walk and ani showed him the great hollows s in the road or the lie rut ruts as he called ahm the chicken was not very old and know very much about me lie iolla and in do these rub nils annoy yo vou fa th er roo itar aked the chi colcun clen they do my lily child but not because they are ruts 1 I am a in very much puzzled father fathe booster oster said the thicken hicken 1 I do wish you oil would explain rather father rooster kooster cleared its his thront throat then ihen he crowed then lie he strutted about 1 I was retting getting myself ready to make it speech lie said now I 1 am all ready anyone else who may care to listen to my speech will he be allowed to listen list c n it is free and I 1 invite ev everyone to hear it cock a doodle do it Is to be a lecture its not to be a lesson Is it asked another chicken who bo had had all he wanted to have of schooling tor for some I 1 time to come me no it Is not to be a lesson leson le son said father rooster then I 1 will come said tho the chicken so will I 1 said another and I 1 will too said a third 1 11 I will join you all said a fourth will there be refreshments afterwards asked a fifth it will probably be time for supper when lie esq gets through s said a sixth still we much else to do chickens chicken and hens find and roosters dont have ii ave many engagements that trials s so replied a seventh well vell ill attend fa father ther rooster roost er mind it 11 tile the least it if they had till all sorts of funny reasons for coming coining as long us as they came ca that nattered flattered him enough well hens bells find and roosters chickens mr air chairman chilli man and ladles ladies and bentle wen he began there is no mr Chair ni iii nian oil and d there are no lols ln ls wid gentlemen here said one af f the chickens IIii sli said theophers lie the others no matter what a lecturer says let hini suy S uy it so father rooster continued it gives me great pleasure sure to be ba asked to speak at this splendid meeting we never asked him at all lie he invited I 1 n himself paid another hush they all said again 1 I to tell you that I 1 hope yol yoi will ill fill join me file in complaining against me ruts rut in the road there was a heavy heava rain torro then the great motor trucks and automobiles came along alon and it Is true some trucks pulled by horses but bill mostly by those atrocious automobiles they made lh ohp ruts and while the people grumble about the awful country roads and the ruts they do not grumble about that horrible invention Invent loii the automobile obile sonie some of the ruts were P blinde iv hy horse trucks one of the others suggested those ruts I 1 do not complain about but I 1 complain about the ill automobiles which dont get the blamo they should get for making such dreadful ruts in the country roads leis complain against the automobiles biles s lie ended all right we will said the rest cut but one little chick brighter than the others said hut but oil oh gracious Grac louz mercy nip file lt its to 0 o complain when it do any good |