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Slim Randles' Home Country
No more cock-a-doodle
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[May 21, 2011]
It all began when old man Ortega's
rooster disappeared. He reported it to the police, of course, who
thought this neighborhood alarm clock had finally met with a
dissatisfied customer and was now cradled in dumplings. |
 The police said
as much to Ortega, and the old
man wanted to know what the police were going to do about it.
Well, since it had been almost a week since they'd had a complaint
come in, the chief sent young Glen around the neighborhood asking
chicken questions. Everyone denied ending ol' Doodle's career … when
they finished laughing … and a cursory exam of yards and garbage
cans failed to turn up brown or red feathers. The preliminary
poultry purloinment pursuit then ended with a cursory report filed
down at the cop shop, with old man Ortega getting a copy of it.
Ortega had his suspicions, of course. There was one neighbor lady
who had once complained about the rooster to Ortega, and he had
defended to her very face his rooster's right to crow. She then
asked if he couldn't get ol' Doodles operated on, like they do to
dogs, and get his doodler clipped so he'd be singing blanks, as it
were.
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Ortega hotly replied that anyone who would deliberately deface an
American rooster would steal sheep. Later on, he apologized to her
for blowing off steam, told her he really didn't think of her as a
sheep thief, and offered to buy her some earplugs that they sell out
at the shooting range. She passed on the earplug offer but poured
him a cup of coffee, and that seemed to be that.
But still, ol' Doodles was gone, and there was no denying it. If
he had simply escaped and was still in town, we'd have heard him
somewhere, so that was ruled out.
We finally put two and two together when another neighbor caught
a coyote going over the fence with one of his hens, but we always
wondered about that doodler-snipping operation. We'll have to ask
Doc about it.
[Text from file received from Slim Randles]
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