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and peas was tolerated for a while ; but when he practiced his new 

 trick on strawberry plants our good neighbors rebelled and we had 

 to keep him home. At first we only clipped his wing and put him 

 in the enclosed portion of a ravine near our home, where he could 

 hunt his living and have the company of the ducks and geese which 

 we kept there. But fences were no obstacle to Jim. He climbed 

 them as easily as a squirrel, so we put him in a cage in the yard 

 until the garden season was well advanced. 



By August he had moulted and regained his flight so we let 

 him out again but back he went to the neighbors, the bane of their 

 lives. On a certain day he flew up to the kitchen window of a 

 neighbor and finding a pudding set outside, planted both feet in the 

 middle of it and began to eat. The harassed housewife went after 

 him with a broom and drove him across the yard, but Jimmie was 

 back at the kitchen a little sooner than she was and this time cap- 

 tured a fish from a shelf on the porch. The particular delectable- 

 ness of this find made it necessary for Jimmy to take it aside into 

 the chicken yard. Here he got his feet and bill very dirty and fishy 

 but seeing a freshly washed counterpane on the line he used it to 

 "wipe his bill" and then walked down the centre of it leaving a 

 muddy crow track with every step. This was beyond all house- 

 wifely endurance and Jimmie was whisked into a box. 



In a few minutes Jim's mistress was called to the telephone. 

 After preliminaries I was asked if I owned a crow. "Yes, is he at 

 your house" I asked for we had had dozens of similar messages 

 about Jim. 



"No" replied the deep voice on the wire, "the crow is at 155 



St., and the lady has him in a box and "Oh" I interrupted, "that is 

 right near home and the crow knows his way about. Tell the lady 

 to let him out." 



"Well," said the deep voice growing a little deeper, "This is the 

 chief of police." 

 ' That magic word was all that was necessary. Jimmie was 

 getting himself and us into trouble, but the misdemeanors cited 

 above were the last ones that season for we brought him back to his 

 cage for the rest of the summer and fall. 



For the winter we put him in a large pen with the ducks and 

 geese where he could keep fat on com and have plenty of company. 

 The pen was large enough to fly in and had several long perches — 

 the one in the comer was his sleeping quarters and the one over- 



