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- # Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
## Overview
"Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!" is a segment extracted from the novel [Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces](arke:01KG6GJKJ0PQQH41HGQ3BBMH23). This segment spans lines 4865 to 5304 of the source text.
## Context
This segment is part of [Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces](arke:01KG6GJKJ0PQQH41HGQ3BBMH23), a novel included in the [Test Collection](arke:01KG2T49K0H5GDRB0G4YDTPG8H). The text was extracted from the file [billy_budd.txt](arke:01KG6FXSCNX5F3D880P3YP3PKR). It follows the segment titled [OTHER PROSE PIECES](arke:01KG6GK8ENNRVDZWM7ZDPK9J5B) and precedes another segment also titled [Cock-a-doodle-doo!](arke:01KG6GK910713XMT1STD6ANZAY).
## Contents
The segment contains seven distinct chunks of text, beginning with the narrator's reflections on a mysterious cock's crowing and his encounter with a wood-sawyer named Merrymusk. The narrative describes Merrymusk's singular character, his impoverished but respectable life, and his family's illness. The narrator eventually discovers that Merrymusk owns the "extraordinary cock," which he calls "Signor Beneventano" or "Trumpet." The cock's crowing is depicted as a source of inspiration and defiance against despair for Merrymusk and his ailing family. The segment concludes with the deaths of Merrymusk and his wife, with the cock continuing to crow triumphantly.
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- Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
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- Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!