True to the Character.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1752, 25 September 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

True to the Character.

' I say, girls,' said a little blue-eyed, flaxen-haired boy on' Second-street yesterday, ' let me tske your candy and we'll all play chicken.'

' Is it nice ?' inquired a half dozen six-year-olds in chorus.

' .Nice ! you bet it is Let me show you. Now, I'll lay the candy down here on the step, and you all go down there and come up when you hear me call like a rooster.'

The girls retreated and gathered in a group about fifteen feet on, while the boy got on his knees, with his head over the candy, and began to call and strut and flap his arms like a rooster's wings.

' Cluck, cluck, rat, tat, rap, cluck,' and all the girls came running up and ben_ to pick up the candy, when the little fellow opened his mouth and took it all in at one gulp.

' Oh, you mean boy,' they cried, ' you have taken all our candy.'

' That's 'cause I played rooster,' said the boy; ' roosters always call the hens up when he finds a grain of. corn, and then picks it up himself.'