1 88 What Birds Have Done With Me 



dear, old grandmother, with three grandsons over 

 in France helping make the world safe for Democ- 

 racy, and a woman who would not intentionally 

 misrepresent, told and it got mixed with printer's 

 ink, too, that she saw a wicked, black Crow steal 

 and carry away a clutch of fifteen hen's eggs. It 

 was not stated just how he carried the eggs, so 

 you are at liberty to make a guess whether it was 

 with claws or in his bill. 



Again, a very honorable citizen, an official 

 member in a rural church, stated that he saw, and 

 this got mixed with printer's ink, too, a wicked 

 black Crow as black as ever Crows can be 

 carry away a whole brood of baby chicks, one by 

 one, in his talons. And taking the public into 

 his confidence, he lapses into a reminiscence of a 

 barn-building that he carried on for a brother- 

 in-law, way back in the early settlement of Wis- 

 consin, and having to walk through a woods to 

 get to his work, carried his gun and without loss 

 of time kept his family table supplied with Grouse. 

 These birds, according to the statement, were so 

 plentiful and tame that he sometimes got a mess 

 on a rainy day shooting from the windows of the 

 barn. At the close of his valuable contribution 

 to natural history, he solemnly avers that since 

 that time the Grouse have been practically exter- 

 minated by the nest-robbing Crow, possibly a 

 Crow with talons. 



