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Show The Crows In Winter. Crows are not nearly so numerous In tho winter. In norlhein Now York and In places equally cold, aa they aro In Hummer, says St. Nicholas. Vet many of tliem gain n living by picking up tho grains of coin Hint liavo fallen from tlio freight ears nnd been scattered scat-tered along ' track. nd slnco they cannot long exist without water, thoy also find much food on tlio river banks and along tlio spring runs when tho snow Is deep. No other bird will hotter hot-ter reward clobe observation, tlio study of his language olono being an endless source of nmiihemenl nnd instruction. in-struction. Crows aro among tho earliest earli-est birds to build. They luy their dark green eggs before tlio last snow has fallen. |