| Rudey Toot-toot Rudey Toot-Toot, was a mean old bird, up, his crowing could be heard,"rrrty-rrrrt- rrrtt!” He would then beat his wings and do it again, only louder!, as if he wasn't heard the first time,"RRRTY-RRTY- RRRR!", and then all of the other chickens would come out of the hen house, one at a time blinking their eyes, making clucking noises, and looking around as if to find out what had disturbed them from their sleep, and so did us children. We didn't need an alarm clock because we had Rudey, and he was on time every day. Now Rudey, was tough as an old hound dog, and it was his job to protect the hens from anything that may harm them, and this he did very well. One day a Chicken Hawk, swooped down out of the sky, and attacked one of the hens. Ol' Rudey ran up there and kicked it in the head with the spurs, that God had given him on the inside of his legs, specifically for protecting the hens and their eggs. Now I would think it safe to say, that Rudey wasn't afraid of anything. One fine mornin' a German shepherd, who's name was "Mojo", thought he was going to have himself some chicken, and took after Rudy like he thought he was going to have to chase him! He was wrong. When Rudy saw that shepherd a-comin', he just beat his wings like thunder, stretched out his neck and said, "RRRTY- RRT-RRT!", and when that dog got close enough, Rudey jumped on his head with his spurs, and rode him to the neighbors! Mojo, never tried that again! In fact Mojo, would look at the chickens, but would walk a wide path around them, lookin' around for that, Rudey Toot- Toot. Now "Mojo", was "chicken”, himself! And that was Rudey's job, Wakin' people up, and chasin' off the predators. The End |