Show 4x F s The Savage Little plrrws I Itwas pot generally known wbea various legislators paired laws del strDctive to the English sparrow what retaliation that bird teould make It I went right on cleaning streatsjuat the same and grain fields As scavenger scaven-ger it multiplied tenfold annually caught the mall boy in his ancient trick of throwing stones and unmindful unmind-ful of legislatures and public opinion drove birds from parka remained re-mained north at all seasons and upheld up-held the supremacy of British bird rale by land I and eta Yesterday a dozen of these foreigners were congregated congre-gated about a little pile ot oat dropped drop-ped on the sidewalk at the corner ot Wabash avenue and Monroa street They were picking their teeth preparatory prepar-atory for the second round when a domestic pigeon dropped down to 1 take possession There were cries of Rule Bitania God save the Queen and My country tis for thee1 and a battle ensued The pigeon pecked harmlessly at the air flipped its wings and strutted around and then flew away in disgust It came back directly and the Britisher picked its eyes out in the twinkling > of a atar and left its remains on the field of battle They retu ned to their oats which they bow felt singling sing-ling Oh for a thousand tongues Chicago InterOcean I |