210 A Sportsman at Large 



" hoodie " crow sitting on the top of an adjacent fir ! Then I 

 understood. Billy had no use whatever for " hoodies " or 

 any other member of the Corvidce no, sir not on your 

 life! 



Even when the hoodoo bird of ill-omen had departed with 

 a derisive croak, Billy refused to budge; so I had to crawl 

 into his lair and lift him bodily from it. 



