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...Kansas City last week the cock robin which has been attacking its own reflection in a window pane was still at it (TIME, March 27). Its mate was supplying it regularly with fat worms, big bugs. Once it fell upon a blue jay which appeared in the yard, drove it away. Apparently wearied by this diversion the cock robin retreated for a few hours to a telephone wire. As the 17th day passed its attacks grew less & less vicious...
...Cock Robin...
...Kansas City last week a cock robin, undeterred by shouts and lowerings of the shade, was slowly weakening as it passed its tenth day of attacking its own reflection in a windowpane...
...three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...
...Year of the Cock means that everything can be accomplished. It is fraught with great significance for Japan. The celestial light is guiding Japan toward expansion...