C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken (1910)
Rastus wanders by a chicken store one morning and stops to admire a box of beautiful pullets. Immediately his appetite for chicken gets him to speculating as to how he can obtain one of the broilers. Rastus looks about cautiously and when he believes no one is looking he stoops to pat one of the birds on the head and his temptation is increased. Carefully lifting the lid, he is about to snatch the prize, when the proprietor of the store dashes out, and kicks him into the street. Rastus limps away, heartbroken, when suddenly his interest is aroused again as he passes a young woman who has just purchased the fowl that he had contemplated appropriating for himself. He turns about and follows her steadily, thinking, "Maybe dat chicken will break away." The young lady stops to chat with a neighborhood policeman, who, seeing Rastus loitering near, orders him on his way. Disappointed but hopeful, Rastus turns up an alley and stops just outside a high board fence, where he hears the faint clucking which sounds suspiciously like chicken talk. He peers through a knothole in the fence and turns back slowly when one of the young pullets flutters up to perch on the fence, then drops down at his very feet. Fortune has smiled on Rastus at last. He makes a wild scramble for the bird, but if flutters out of his hands and starts wildly out of the alley with Rastus at his heels. The chase is a hot and furious one and in the end Rastus corners his quarry, and grabs it by the flopping wing. With a smile of triumph he holds it in his hands, when suddenly, as though by magic, it disappears. The frightened colored man stares in amazement. Evidently "dat chicken was congered." He turns and runs out of the alley, anxious to leave this witch-ridden neighborhood.
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