Learning to Crow.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2128, 23 October 1896, Page 3

Learning to Crow.

A y udiful Bantam crossed the yard and got v.pon the gate. "I've reen to school to Chanticleer," quoth he, "and if you'll wait I'll show you what a crow is like!" lie Happed his wings in view Of chicles aaf] geese, and cows and pigs, and shouted "Cock-a-doo!" "I don't remember how it ends," he muttered in dismay; And then, alighting from liis perch, lie shly turnod away. His audience was not disposed to be—well, too severe. But one old turkey clucked. "My lad, go back to Chanticleer." Next day the bantam came again, and, mounting up on high, He gave a cough to clear his threat, which felt a trifle dry. . "My friends." ho called, "attention, please; I'vo learnt my lesson through." Alas-! when ho essayed to crow he onlv cried, "Dle-doo!" "Oil dear, I don't remember now how it begins," he said, And blushes made his little comb unusually red. "You are, indeed, a shocking dunce." a goose I was heard to jeer. And then once more the turkey clucked "Go back to Chanticleer." 'Tis pcrseverer.ee conquers still: the Bantam did his best. And for a week or so he scarce would give hiini self a rest. When noxt he perched upon the gate the marie word he kn^w. And all the farnnard folk admired his "Coclc-a-doo-dle don'" Felix Leigh, in "Little Folks."