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Cranky Is the Crow 



by George Heinold . . . paintings by Charles Culver 



Donald Duck, no American bird has developed a 

 _J personality equal to that of the crow. Yet the crow lacks 

 beauty, charm, grace, song, deadly beak, and talons. Cunning 

 alone has made him the Capone of the cornfields, and with as 

 many foes, man and beast, as the coyote, he is not only here to 

 stay, but everywhere to stay except that he has no clawhold 

 in South America. 



Stories of corvine mischief, raffishness, and perverse humor 

 make the eagle and the hummingbird drab by comparison. 

 What eagle ever swooped into a farmyard and made off with 



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