carry it to its favourite hole. We copy the 
following anecdote from Montague in con- 
firmation of the above. "We have been 
assured, by a gentleman of veracity, that 
his butler having missed a great many 
silver spoons and other articles, without 
being able to detect the thief for some 
time, at last observed a tame Raven with 
one in his mouth, and watched him to his 
hiding place, where he found more than a 
dozen." 
A few years since a Raven belonging 
to a gentleman at Yarmouth, became so 
tame that it was suffered to go at liberty. 
A friend to whom we are indebted for the 
account, assures us that he has frequently 
seen it when boys have been playing with 
a ball, watch an opportunity to seize the 
ball, and having succeeded in the attempt 
would fly with it unto the roof of a neigh- 
bouring house to the great mortification 
of the boys. At other times it would pick 
up a hat, and not unfrequently fly with it 
to the top of an ensign-staff erected near 
its masters house, where it would some- 
times leave the hat; at length it grew so 
