Word: roosters
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Eustace is a rooster. A few months ago, when some R.A.F. pilots first saw him at Gambut in the Western Desert, he looked as though disaster had struck the poultry kingdom. The pilots thought that scrawny, molting Eustace might as well be consigned to the pot; they traded three packages of tea for him. But on their way back to their station, Eustace's unhappy eye reproached their appetites. They decided to keep him as a mascot...
...farmer charged his wife had made him live in the barn to make room for his mother-in-law, then forced him out of the barn because she was afraid he would disturb a pregnant cow. The judge ordered the wife to take him back when he complained a rooster wouldn't let him in the chicken coop...
...time the orchestra's schedule had to be accommodated to the schedule of the Southern Pacific Railroad, because the clarinetist was a Pullman conductor. He was an absent-minded clarinetist. When the orchestra played Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, in which the clarinet roops a rooster call, he missed his cue. After the closing chord, the Pullman conductor realized his omission, leaped to his feet, played the rooster call, sat down amid riotous applause...
...quiet Junior was the iron man of the backfield this fall, playing 434 out of 480 minutes and excelling as a safety man and pass defender. His coach, Dick Harlow, describes him as "a cool little rooster and a man to rely on when the chips are down." He has a record of being Johnny-on-the-spot with a timely tackle or run in his football career at Cambridge...
...puppet zoo on the desk of Franklin D. Roosevelt (a red rooster, two penguins, a grey hen, an owl, six Democratic donkeys) was added an elephant...