JACKDAW 



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JACKSON 



jackal, an African species, is prized for its fur, 

 which is more highly-colored than that of the 

 common variety. 



The jackals' troop, in gather' d cry, 

 Bay'd from afar complainingly, 

 With a mix'd and mournful sound, 

 Like crying babe, and beaten hound. 



BYRON : Siege of Corinth. 



JACK 'DAW, a common European bird of 

 the crow species. It is deep black in color, 

 with a grayish fringe around the neck, and is 

 usually about fourteen inches in length. It is 

 a very sociable bird and frequents towns and 



stole a cardinal's ring and was cursed until he 

 restored it. 



JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT, c* INDIAN TUR- 

 NIP, a quaint American wild flower of the 

 moist woodlands and thickets, found growing 

 from Nova Scotia southward to the Gulf states 

 and as far west as Minnesota. It belongs to 



the arum family 



and is related to 

 the calla lily. 

 Jack-in-the- 

 Pulpit has been 

 aptly named. The 

 tiny greenish- 

 yellow flowers of 

 this plant are 

 clustered on the 

 lower part of a 

 smooth, slender 

 stalk, called the 

 spadix, which is 

 enveloped by a 

 curving, leaflike 

 spa t h e whose 

 broad, overhang- 

 ing flap is the 



Jack-in-the-Pulpit 



Preaches to-day, 

 Under the green trees 



Just over the way. 

 Green is his surplice, 



Green are his bands ; 

 In his queer little pulpit 



The little priest stands. 



Green fingers playing 

 Unseen on wind-lyres 



Low singing bird voices 

 These are his choirs. 

 WHITTIER. 



JACKDAWS 



villages, building its nest in spires and holes 

 in trees. Jackdaws make intelligent pets, but 

 are mischievous, like the crow, and will steal 

 any small, bright object that attracts their at- 

 tention. One of the best known of the In- 

 goldsby legends is a story of a jackdaw who 



sounding-board of 

 the "pulpit." 



The spathe is 

 pale green in 

 color, more or 

 less striped with 

 purple and brownish lines. This odd-shaped 

 plant may be seen in blossom from April to 

 June; the flowers are followed by clusters of 

 smooth, red berries, which the Indians at one 

 time used to boil for food. The plant grows 

 from a turniplike root filled with a fiery juic 

 sometimes used in concocting domestic 

 cine. The root, though tasteless when 

 was eaten by the Indians. 



ACKSON, ANDREW (1767-1845), an Ameri- duced Clay, Webster, Calhoun and other great 



can soldier and statesman, President of the men, Jackson was perhaps the most striking 



United States from 1829 to 1837, the seventh character of his day. He was a lawyer by 



man to hold that office. In an age which pro- profession, a fighter by preference, and a poll- 



