FEGHOOT 51 

Ferdinand Feghoot not only shared the hardships of General Washington's 
soldiers at Valley Forge, but he managed to protect his fellow Time Watcher, 
Coop-Major Leghorn Gallinorum, from their hunger. Feghoot was disguised as a 
volunteer Neapolitan officer; the Coop-Major, a telepathic mutant rooster from 
the 43rd Century, as a gamecock. They were watching for a British sympathizer 
who, along that time-line, was due to make an attempt on Washington's life.

Finally, late in February, Baron von Steuben summoned Feghoot excitedly. 
"Ach!" he cried out." In der bones I haff der stranche feeling-Vashington iss 
in dancher!"

Responding immediately, Feghoot's colleague began searching the area where the 
Baron felt especially uneasy, and very promptly he discovered the culprit, 
cunningly hidden in an old cider press.

When the man had been led off to court-martial, they settled down to their 
evening meal of boiled boot-tops and birchbark; and von Steuben, looking 
hungrily at the Coop-Major and licking his chops, sighed that there was 
nothing he missed as much as old-fashioned Italian cooking. "Donnerwetter!" he 
exclaimed. "I vould giff anything for pollo al burro, pollo con funghi, for 
chust plain pollo!"

"My dear Baron," laughed Ferdinand Feghoot, "Have you forgotten your calories, 
your cholesterol? Don't you realize that you just had a first-rate chicken 
catch a Tory?"