"Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster" is a sketch story by Australian writer Henry Lawson.
The story begins with Mitchell reminiscing about the first time a cousin noticed that Bill the rooster was a ventriloquist.
Not even Bill himself recognised his own peculiar skill, and he always "thought it was another rooster challenging him, and he wanted badly to find that other bird."
When Mitchell's neighbour, an Irishman named Page, brings home a big white rooster, the two birds become involved in a vicious cock-fight.
Jim, the more experienced bird, runs Bill in circles for a whole hour until the large rooster can no longer move.