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the eggs, Killer, the big hawk, came sailing along and 

 stopped on a nearby fence post to see what all the 

 disturbance was about. 



"Say, Jim! You should be ashamed of yourself 

 to rob Bob White's nest like that, and to think you 

 are teaching your children to do the same thing! 

 That is the reason that all the rest of the birds know 

 you as Robber Jim Crow. You should behave your- 

 self and be more of a gentleman," lectured the big 

 hawk. 



"Haw! Haw! Haw! That's the best one I have 

 heard for an age! The Killer sitting on his throne, 

 telUng the Robber to go straight," returned Jim. 

 "Say, I suppose that you would like all the birds and 

 the quails to hatch their eggs, so that you might kiU 

 the defenseless youngsters while they are nice and 

 tender. How about that Uttle white chicken I saw 

 you bringing home yesterday? Suppose Farmer 

 Good missed that one? How about that nest of 

 young red-wing blackbirds I saw you cleaning out 

 the other day? And again you will remember that 

 nice brood of prairie chickens that you kept after 

 for days last year in the big wheat field until you 

 got the last one. You remember all that, don't you? 

 Then you tell me to be a gentleman. Haw! Haw! 

 Haw!" and Jim Crow nearly laughed himself sick. 



