Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1884 — Rooster Gallantry. [ARTICLE]

Rooster Gallantry.

A lady in this city, hearing an unusual commotion in , her poultry-yard one morning, ran out and saw three roosters making frantic efforts to extricate a hen that had got her head fastened between the boards of a fence in an attempt to

fly over it, while about twenty old hens were walking and feeding about the yard as unconcernedly as if nothing unusual was going on. The action of the roosters may be explained by the proverbial gallantry of the sex, while the> hens were probably taking quite a light in seeing the belle of the flock and a hated rival effectually strangled.— Vallejo (Cal.) Times.