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pat of butter ; while nothing hut the inconvenient 



shape of the jug has prevented the abstraction of 



the milk. 1 do not object very much to the crows 



taking my jam, but I think it distinctly bad form 



of them to afterwards clean their beaks on my 

 table cloth. 



Crows are guilty of yet more heinous offences than 

 mere theft, they make no bones about highway rob- 

 bery. A crow will rob one of its own species or 

 any other bird or beast. I used to possess a 

 greyhound wdiich suffered much at the hands 





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