o that of pulling up corn, though the latter 

 makes almost every farmer his enemy. 



Yet with all his rascality he has many 

 curious and interesting ways. In fact, I 

 t^roW'tuays ha.rdly know another bird that so well repays 

 a season's study; only one must be very 

 patient, and put up with frequent disappoint- 

 ments, if he would learn much of a crow's 

 peculiarities by personal observation. How 

 shy he is ! How cunning and quick to learn 

 wisdom ! Yet he is very easily fooled ; and 

 some experiences that ought to teach him 

 wisdom he seems to forget within an hour. 

 Almost every time I went shooting, in the 

 old barbarian days before I learned better, I 

 used to get one or two crows from a flock 

 that ranged over my hunting ground, by 

 hiding among the pines and calling like a 

 young crow. If the flock was within hear- 

 ing, it was astonishing to hear the loud 

 chorus of haw-haws, and to see them come 

 rushing over the same grove where, a week 

 before, they had been fooled in the same 

 way. Sometimes, indeed, they seemed to 

 remember ; for when the pseudo young crow 



