From their elevated baskets the roosters crowed incessantly in prolonged shrieking matches. Longopoa jumped overboard, ran ashore and crowed like a rooster. He crowed like a rooster, and this woke up the rest of the roosters. Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. As dawn was approaching, a rooster crowed. Immediately the rooster crowed the second time. Later, he stopped talking and simply crowed. The loser's twig broke and the winner crowed like a rooster. Everyone, he crowed, wanted him. With a stone still missing from the wall, the cockerel crowed. "I'm a Hoosier, too," she crowed. The elves decide to try moving the children to their fortress of crowed horns again.