King Cole: A Biography 



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was a long time before we learned the cause and manner of his taking 

 ofif. At last a friend confessed to us that a neighbor of hers who had 

 sufifered many a time from the raids of King Cole upon her chicken-yard, 

 one day found him beneath the high valanced bed in her room worrying 

 a little chicken he had driven in from the yard. The woman declared 

 that her patience then and there came to an end, and so she summoned 

 her husband to the scene. He brought his gun and put an end to our 

 poor King Cole's life. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAY 

 From nature, by Evan Lewis, at Idaho Springs, Colo. 



