Show A thieving crow the crow is the brainiest brai niest thing thin that wears feathers asserted P C F flower 1 ower addressing tho the mendacity club at the laclede what lie he know is hardly worth finding out you can fool any other bird with a scarecrow but this black pirate of the air can toll a bundle of old clothes from a real live man as readily as a skilled naturalist can distinguish between a dude and a dodo some soine years ago I 1 was conducting a dry goods and notion store at nashville I 1 had a pot crow that was always hopping about the store I 1 was continually missing small articles from the notion counter arid and as I 1 was not familiar with the utter depravity of the crow tribe I 1 attributed the petty thefts to shoplifters shop lifters one day a bill disappeared from tho the cash desk and I 1 then hii ed a detective to watch the storo store il lie e was not long iong in ili spotting the thief mr crow flew away with a skein 61 ein of ai silk lk thread and he was followed he deposited it in a hollow oak tree in the rear of the building and came back tor for another haul we cut the tree down and found it to contain more than a bushel basketful of notions of all kinds filched from the counters and in the lot was my bill ile he was the most successful shoplifter I 1 ever knew wo we aled a mock court tried the offender and passed sentence of death upon him but it was never executed whether ho he understood the sentence or simply realized that his occupation was gone I 1 do not know but with a loud croak he be flew away and we ive never saw him again i st louis globe democrat |