I went to school with him -- he was a Glen boy , you know -- and he was a most detestable little prig even then . Oh , how we girls used to hate holding his fat , clammy hands in the ring-around games . But we must remember , dear , that he did n't know that Adam had been a pet of yours . He thought he WAS just a common rooster . We must be just , even when we are terribly hurt . '' `` I suppose so , '' admitted Faith . `` But why does everybody seem to think it funny that I should have loved Adam so much , Miss West ? If it had been a horrid old cat nobody would have thought it queer . When Lottie Warren 's kitten had its legs cut off by the binder everybody was sorry for her . She cried two days in school and nobody laughed at her , not even Dan Reese . And all her chums went to the kitten 's funeral and helped her bury it -- only they could n't bury its poor little paws with it , because they could n't find them . It was a horrid thing to have happen , of course , but I do n't think it was as dreadful as seeing your pet EATEN UP . Yet everybody laughs at ME . '' `` I think it is because the name ` rooster ' seems rather a funny one , '' said Rosemary gravely . `` There IS something in it that is comical . Now , ` chicken ' is different . It does n't sound so funny to talk of loving a chicken . '' `` Adam was the dearest little chicken , Miss West . He was just a little golden ball . He would run up to me and peck out of my hand .
And he was handsome when he grew up , too -- white as snow , XXXXX such a beautiful curving white tail , though Mary Vance said it was too short .
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