or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano" is an 1853 short story by the American writer Herman Melville.
It was first published in the December 1853 issue of Harper's Magazine, the same month the second installment of "Bartleby, the Scrivener" appeared in Putnam's.
The narrator hears a powerful and invigorating rooster and thinks it is a bird imported by some rich farmer.
Roaming his part of the country, he discovers that the rooster is the property of a poor worker who will not sell it since its crowing is the only sustenance of his ill wife and children.
Most scholars agree that this story satirizes Transcendentalist philosophy, in particular Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.