THE NORTHWEST CROW. 



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tlieir dried lisii and other things, while from superstitious feeling's the 

 Indians never kill tiiem but set a child to watch and drive them away. They 

 build in trees near the shore in the same way as the common crow and the 

 young are fledged in May." 



Air. J. F. Edwards, a pioneer of "67. tells nie that in the earlv days a 

 small drove of pigs was an essential feature of every well-equipped saw-mill 

 on Puget Sound. Tlie pigs were given the freedom of the premises, slept 

 in the saw dust, and dined behind the mess-hotise. Between meals they 

 wandered d(v\\n to the beach and rooted for clams at low tide. The Crows 

 were not slow to learn the advantages of this arrangement and posted them- 

 selves promptly in the most commanding and only safe positions; viz., on 

 the backs of the pigs. The pig grunted and squirmed, but Mr. Crow, mindful 

 of the blessings ahead, merely extaided a balancing wing and held on. The 

 instant the industrious rooter turned up a clam, the Crow darted down, 

 seized it in his beak and made oiT; resigning his station to some sable 

 brother, and leaving the ]>orker to reflect discontentedly upon the rapacitv 

 of the upper classes. Mr. Edwards declares that he has seen this little 

 comedy enacted, not once, but a hundred times, at Port Madison and at 

 Alberni. \'. I. 



The Fish Crows have learned from the gulls the delights of sailing 

 tJie main on driftwood. I have seen numbers of them going nut with the 

 tide a mile or more from shore, and once a Crow kept compan\- with three 

 gulls on a float so small that the gulls had continually to strive for position: 

 but the Crow stood undisturbed. 



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