Robert E. Lee, one of them shouted: “Ah, get 
out, you haven’t sense enough to bell a buz- 
vara; : 
When they left him Sim was standing in the 
road shouting confidently that he could whip 
five Yankees and bell a buzzard at the same 
time. The taunts of the boys hurt Silly Sim’s 
pride, and he vowed to himself that he would 
convince everybody that he was a man of good 
sense and the best way to do this, of course, was 
to put a bell on some buzzard. So he hunted 
around until he found a small cow-bell which 
he put with a string in his pocket. He tried 
several times to catch a buzzard at the market 
but without success. In fact, a policeman. see- 
ing him jump at one one day, ordered him 
away, and told him that buzzards must not be 
troubled, that the law protected them, because 
if there were no buzzards in the country, farmers 
would have to bury their horses and cows when 
they died. 
As Bill Two-feathers was wandering around 
the garbage heap he came to an old butter cask, to 
the sides and bottom of which there still adhered 
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