They put the old rooster in the sack and he went to squawkin' so they took him out and wrung his neck.

It's got a picture of a rooster on it.

From fountains bright at fair Versailles, And gardens of St. Cloud With a rooster of the Gallic breed To cock-a-doodle-do Behold!

" "The Eagle of France," sez he dreamily, "could be represented in reduced form, as artists say, by Solomon Bobbett's old Bramy rooster with some claws tied on.

Si Perkins, who was one of the unregenerate, but a mighty good friend of the Doc's, was standing by, and he blurted right out: "You say the word, Doc, and we'll make the young people's society ride this rooster out of town on a rail.

One might as well call a farmer gallant because, when he kills the young roosters for broilers, he saves the young hens.

At other times while the great poet was singing his sweetest songs, we would seize his ancient roosters by their tails, and while they were making night hideous with their lamentations, the angry couple would bombard the hen-roosts with shovels, hoes and other weapons in the hope of slaughtering the marauders.

I say in an off-hand manner, with assumed nonchalance: "Ellen, I want Tom to kill a rooster at once for tomorrow's dinner, and I have an order from a friend for four more, so he must select five to-night."

I could hear the bawling of the cattle in every barnyard for miles around, and the crowing of roosters as the fowls strutted about in the warm sun.

"Well, I don't happen to have a white rooster about me!"

One day while lunching at an African foudak, half way between Tangier and Tetuan, I was led to moralize on the conjugal superiority of Mohammedan roosters to Mohammedan men.

Ducks, the small birds, the rooster down the road begin to sing the air, the light, the whole enormous chance grateful as the old people reclaiming Pauahi Street, seeing each other in doorways after the night.