JIM CROW 



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of the household, and by no means the least con- 

 spicuous member. He had the free range not only 

 of the garden behind the house, but of the whole 

 farm and the Berkshire Hills beyond. No effort 

 whatever was 

 made to confine 

 him. Yet he, in 

 his turn, showed 

 no disposition to 

 depart and join 

 his feathered fel- 

 lows. As a matter 

 of fact, he showed 

 an odd fear of his 

 own kind, and 

 when wild crows 

 came into the 

 garden he would 

 fly hastily to the 

 protection of the 

 woodshed or the 

 kitchen door. I 

 wonder if this is 

 characteristic of 

 all crows reared 

 in captivity? 

 Neither did he at 



any time during the entire season molest the garden 

 or the field corn, in spite of his constant opportuni- 

 ties, nor any of the numerous robin and field-sparrow 

 nests about the place. This may, of course, be ex- 

 plained in part by his many opportunities to get 

 food more easily at the kitchen door scraps fallen 



He would follow up the rows of fresh- 

 turned earth 



