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When animated in talk, he was the incarnation of disobedience, defiance, scorn, success. Two things he held in special pride hatred for women and a passionate love for game-cocks. He allowed no woman on his place in any capacity, and, by the sounds day and night, he kept at least a thousand roosters.
I understand that they don't treat teachers very well out there." "How so?" "The boys have a habit of ducking them in the creek, I hear." "Oh, is that all? Be fun for me." "You won't think so after you see those roosters. Let me see. Take the Purdy road out there, and go straight ahead to the east, and when you think you have gone about fifteen miles, ask for the house of Lim Jucklin.
"But it ain't too late for full-growed roosters to crow!" he asserted. Long chuckled again. "Nope. I jest crowed." Not a man present missed the double-meaning, including Gary. And Gary did not want any of Long's game. The genial Bud had delicately intimated that his sympathies were with the Concho boys.
At this, such a hurry and scurry as there would be! It seemed as if every fowl on the farm heard the call and was coming. There were big hens and little hens, brown hens, black hens, white hens, and speckled hens. There were fluffy baby chicks and long-legged middle-sized chickens. There were proud roosters with bright combs and gay, glossy feathers.
And Drew, surveying the enemy with a critical and experienced eye, was sure that he was indeed meeting either green troops or militia. They were as wide-eyed in their return stare as the civilians on the streets around. Kirby chuckled. "Strut it up, roosters," he urged from the corner of his mouth. "Cutthroats, banditti, hoss thieves jus' downright bad hombres, that's us.
"We'll see whether he gives up or not when I take a sharp knife to him," her mother answered; "and as to his looks, a platter full o' gravy makes a sight o' difference with old roosters, and I'll put dumplings round the aidge; they're turrible fillin', though they don't belong with boiled chicken."
I'll have a light soup to begin with . . . you know I can make lovely cream-of-onion soup . . . and then a couple of roast fowls. I'll have the two white roosters. I have real affection for those roosters and they've been pets ever since the gray hen hatched out just the two of them . . . little balls of yellow down.
The government has got him dead to rights. Say," he went on, "just to be arguing, you know last evening I took a poll of the train the limited the Golden State Limited swell train, swell crowd all rich old roosters; and honest, do you know that out of one hundred and twenty-three votes polled only four were for him, and three of those were girls who said they knew his daughter at the state university, and had visited at his house.
"Cuckoo," called the tiny wooden cuckoo nine times, and at once the bells in the village steeple answered him. "That's as it should be," ticked the cuckoo. "That church-bell is really very intelligent. Let me see; to-morrow morning I must wake the roosters at three, and the sun at four, and the family must be up by five.
That night before setting the new chickens at liberty, Bob caught and killed the two remaining Dunghill roosters. It was a tired but happy family that went to bed at ten o'clock that night, instead of the regular hour of nine. It seemed to Bob that he had just closed his eyes when bedlam broke loose.
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