Read the excerpt below and answer the question. When he did appear, he was attended not only by his retinue of dogs but by a black cockerel who marched in front of him and acted as a kind of trumpeter, letting out a loud “cockcoll doodle doo” before Napoleon spoke. In at least 100 words, explain the setting and event indicated in the above excerpt. Then, describe the characters participating in the event and explain the context clues that helped you define the highlighted vocabulary word.
