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dawn and * squawk ' in concert until they awaken 

 the Sahib and make him so irate that further sleep is 

 out of the question/' 



Crows are especially severe upon golfers. The 

 birds loiter about the links as loafers hang around a 

 public house. When a player makes a long drive, a 

 crow swoops down upon the ball, picks it up in his 

 beak and flies off with it, while the golfer looks on 

 and uses language of the description heard only on 

 golf link. 



Sometimes, however, the tables are turned ; a 

 golfer occasionally scores off a crow. Recently I had 

 the pleasure of dropping an " approach shot " on to 

 the back of a crow who was swaggering about in the 

 neighbourhood of the ** green." Horace Hutchinson 

 tells of a rook in England which was observed to 

 continue sitting long after the other rooks of the 

 neighbourhood had ceased to do so. The tree in 

 which the nest was situated was growing on a golf 

 links. 



The members of the Golf Club investigated the 

 matter and foQnd that the rook was trying to hatch 



