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defend itself against his attacks. He knew a good many 

 of the small birds lived mostly on insects, for he had 

 watched them when feeding their young. He thought 

 the crow destroyed the grub killers, instead of the grubs, 

 and he was glad to see folks getting waked up to his true 

 character. He should go strong for smoking him out. 



You see which way the current is setting up here. Ev 

 ery crow thinks his own young the whitest, they say ; and 

 I am perhaps a little prejudiced in favor of Hookertown, 

 but it strikes me that there is about as much good com 

 mon sense in our Club as there is in any scientific society. 

 I have to admit that I have been on both sides of this 

 question, but have found hard bottom at last. Our fathers 

 were right in killing crows. The birds belong to the fos 

 sil age. There is no music in his caw. He prefers a dead 

 carcass to a living one, and will devour a half pound of 

 putrid flesh a day. We can make a better use of the flesh 

 than to bestow it on this sneaking thief. He destroys our 

 song birds and worm eaters in the nest. He is the pest 

 of our corn fields and the scourge of our orchards, where 

 the farmer s true friends build their nests. A strong pe 

 tition is going up to the Legislature from Hookertown 

 this spring for a big bounty on crows. 



Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 



HooJcertown, March 1, 1867. 



NO. 82. TIM BUNKER ON THE EIGHT HOUR 

 LAW. 



BIG FERMENT IN HOOKERTOWN. 



MR. EDITOR: We have been having considerable do 

 ings up here lately, and as you wanted me to keep you 

 posted on Connecticut news in general, and Hookertown 



