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Burgomaster Max was a short, slim & trim bachelor with a sharp eye for a pretty face or ankle. Sporting a torpedo beard and boulevardier's mustache, he was a gay cock sparrow in silk hat, frock coat and gold chain, the idol of the citizenry. As familiar to Bruxellois as his magnificent whiskers was his series of white pinschers, all called "Happy...
...Town Hall the German commander unslung his service pistol and laid it on the Burgomaster's desk with a flourish. With an equal flourish Cock Sparrow Max unslung his service fountain pen and laid it beside the pistol. He refused, however, to shake hands...
...five weeks the purple-faced German command could stand the Cock Sparrow's impudence no longer. He carted him off to Germany, kept him under lock & key for four years...
Both the name, Cock House, and the three-foot wooden animal that hangs over the door to the house are curious mysteries to the present owner. Nobody seems to know how either of them originated...
From this point, the responsibility is yours. The ultra-venerable of Tory Row dowagers, who congregate regularly at the Cock Horse, generally choose one of the downstairs rooms where the rule is dignity, restraint and no smoking. Above, there are six semiprivate rooms where graduate students and professors are wont to soft-talk over their coffee. No liquor is sever in any of the various chambers; it just isn't that type of place. The Cock Horse is for sentimental its who like to dream of bygone days when the anvil and hammer changed and the oft-chanted poem...