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for mercy, crying out against the ele- 

 ments. 



A friend of mine while snow-shoeing 

 in the woods near here noticed a black 

 object under the crust at his feet. He 

 kicked away the snow and pulled out a 

 crow who was frozen stiff. He took off 

 his snow-shoes and began digging, and in 

 a space of twenty or thirty square feet 

 uncovered nearly fifty crows, all dead like 

 the first. 



They had plunged under the snow to 

 keep warm on a winter's night, and to 

 escape a blinding snowstorm. The snow 

 had turned to rain, and this had frozen 

 making a stiff crust, and the whole flock 

 had perished. 



Within thirty feet of the window 

 where I am writing, this very day crows 

 have been shaking frozen pears from a tree 

 and then lighting on the snow to eat a 



