My Brother's Peculiar Chicken

• My Brother's Peculiar Chicken


  Alejandro Roces
• Alejandro Reyes Roces


  popular for his "Filipinos are Mild Drinkers"

  
  

  His stories, essays, and articles show his strong commitment to promote and preserve the unique cultural heritage of the filipinos.
• 1646


  the first documented use of the word "gamecock"
• George Wilson


  wrote the earliest known book on cockfighting in "The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting" in 1607
• Citizens


  inhabitants
• Lofty


  noble
• Wattles


  a loose fold of skin, hanging from the neck or throat of certain bird.

  
• Spurs


  pointy. mean looking clawlike growth on the leg of a rooster.

  
• Steel Gaffs


  a metal spur fixed to the leg of a rooster
• Peculiar


  strange or unusual, sometimes in an unpleasant way.
• Tiope


  cheating
• Kiko's Side (rooster)


  spurs, long tail
• Kiko's Brother (hen)


  no comb or wattle
• Mother (rooster)


  it is a "Binabae" it is a rooster that looks like a hen.
• Father (hen)


  it is a hen.
• Teniente del barrio


  it must be a bird of some other kind
• Mr. Eduardo Cruz


  i could kill it and examine its insides.