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when he had again alighted in safety he 

 realized that it was morning again and 

 he was awake and it was time that the 

 gang got together. " Hi-i, hi-i, hi-i-i," it 

 said. It was neither musical nor polite, 

 but it was intended to wake every crow 

 within a half-mile in a spirit of riotous 

 good-fellowship. There was no further 

 need of my services; every crow within 

 a half-mile answered that call. Then I 

 could hear those farther on rousing and 

 taking up the cry, and so it went on, no 

 doubt indefinitely. 



I have a feeling that I waked every 

 crow in eastern Massachusetts a full half- 

 hour before his accustomed time, simply 

 by kicking that dead limb. However, I 

 learned one thing, and hereby report it 

 to the Lodging-House Commission: that 

 is, that the crows hereabouts have now 



given up the dormitory idea and occupy 

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