Silverspot 



.v, nips between Toronto and Ni- 

 ° P Ta W toVtw ve, in a straight line would 

 a h f J but always in a curve to the west, 

 whe eoy he kept in sight of the famrhar land- 

 Tof Dundas Mouutain, until the p.ne-clad 

 Ml itself caure in view. Each year he came 

 1 h troop and for about six «eks took up 

 M abode on'the hill. Each morning there- 

 ato the crows set out in three bands to forage. 

 One hand went southeast to Ashbr.dge s B£. 

 One went north up the Don and one, the 

 ,argest,went northwestward up the ravm e The 

 last Silverspot led in person. Who led the 

 others I never found out. 

 ° On calm mornings they flew high .and stra.gh 

 away. But when it was w.ndy the band fe. 

 low, and followed the ravme for shelter. My 

 windows overlooked the ravme and it was thu 

 That in .88s I first noticed this old crow. I 

 wa n w-comer in the neighborhood but an 

 old evident said to me then « that there old 

 «^as been a-fiying up and down t = 



for more than twenty years. My cttan 

 wa tch were in the ravine, and Stlverspo :** 

 gedly clinging to the old route, though now rt 





