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"I am not going to suppose anything of the sort, sir," cried the doctor indignantly; "and look here, Rodney, I will not have you setting up your feathers like the miserable young cockerel you are, and beginning to crow at me, just as if you were full grown. It's growing unbearable, Rodney, and I won't have it, sir.
"By the living God, but you carry the thing off bravely, young cockerel!" he exclaimed. "Do you dare me to fire?" "Yes," I exclaimed stoutly. "I dare you to fire, if you can bring yourself to perpetrate so rank an act of cowardice!" "Well," he returned, laughing, as he lowered the pistol, uncocked it, and replaced it in his belt; "you are right. I cannot; at least not in cold blood.
'Thou art but a cockerel, he muttered, 'but 'twere pity thou wert knocked off the perch before seeing a little more of the sweet and sour of this world though, faith, if thou hast the usual luck of it, the best way were to leave thee to the chance of a seasoning fever.
You are in hospital, sir." "No," said Morgan grimly; "I am better now, and I'm not a bad shot with a revolver." "You had better leave it to us, Morgan," said the first-mate. "You and Mark Strong go and lie down in shelter." "Oh, Mr Gregory," cried Mark. "Why, you miserable young cockerel," said the major, "you don't want to fight?"
The third class hardly needs our consideration in the present chapter. This stock, usually Leghorns, like Jersey veal, is to be disposed of at whatever price the market offers. The cockerel will, if growing nicely, be fairly plump and the hens, if on hopper rations of corn and beef scrap, will be about as fat as they can be profitably made, and to waste further effort upon them would not pay.
Point him out to me and I'll soon teach him a lesson." Henrietta Hen said that she hadn't noticed which cockerel it was. Somehow they all looked alike to her. "Good!" the Rooster cried. "Then I'll have to whip them all, to make sure of punishing the guilty one." He looked very fierce. "Don't be absurd!" Henrietta told him.
There was a sound of whistling, too, when a voice in the stalls, suggestive of a molting cockerel, cried out with great conviction: "That's very smart!" All the house looked round. It was the cherub, the truant from the boarding-school, who sat with his fine eyes very wide open and his fair face glowing very hotly at sight of Nana.
Rodd, full of excitement, was burning to follow too and see what he looked upon as the officer's discomfiture; but there was that middy, who seemed to be left in command of the marines, and he felt a peculiar sensation which completely mastered him, filling him as it did with a desire to have what he afterwards called a good fall out with that fellow, who seemed to make him metaphorically set up his feathers all round his neck and go at him as a strange young cockerel of a different breed who had suddenly appeared in the poultry-yard where he dwelt.
"Pasquini is mine," I answered. "He shall be first to-morrow." "Are there others?" Lanfranc demanded. "Ask de Goncourt," I grinned. "I imagine he is already laying claim to the honour of being the third." At this, de Goncourt showed distressed acquiescence. Lanfranc looked inquiry at him, and de Goncourt nodded. "And after him I doubt not comes the cockerel," I went on.
A cockerel, with the carelessness of youth, had selected for his roost the limb of an adjacent oak and was still gazing about him instead of secreting his head under his wing, as cockerels should at sunset. Pablo neatly shot his head off, seized the fluttering carcass, and started plucking out the feathers with neatness and despatch. "Don Mike, he's like gallina con arroz espagñol," he explained.
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