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yet if a man sets out deliberately to hunt 

 them day in and day out for any length of 

 time, on horseback or from a rig, they will 

 soon get the drift of his scheme and refuse to 

 be gulled. In only two states that I know of 

 are the crows mentioned in the game-laws, 

 and there they are named only as not being 

 protected. In many parts of the country 

 there is a bounty for them the year round. 



From two to five cents a head is paid for 

 them in various sections of the states. The 

 boys and men of these particular localities 

 hunt them perseveringly. I hunted crows 

 with a double-barrelled shot-gun one summer, 

 with very fair success. The birds frequented 

 old orchards a good deal, which were usu- 

 ally inclosed by stone walls from three to 

 four feet high. I used to prowl around until 

 I saw a crow keeping a sharp lookout from 

 the top of an apple-tree. This bird was the 

 temporary chairman of the meeting of the 

 crows, a sort of " sentinel-am-I " crow. Af- 

 ter he had been up in the tree for a few 

 minutes he would fly down, and presently 

 another bird would fly up and take his place. 

 In this short interval between guard-duty I 

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