Show I I OUR YOUNG FOLKS t A Half Hours Amusement for Youthful Readers t + C f A JHL1EF CHAPTER OX PIGEONS I I r i Tilt Ioiitci the 1assenpxr the Carrier the I Jlntsian the Tumbler mid the Common Ilffcon New Use for Eggs I In a large garden were seven pigeous but hey were unlike each other The largest bird I raid See what I can dol and ho took along a-long breath and his crop puffed out so large that tlio other pigeons had to play peeka < boo to see his head behind it This was the pouter pigeon uI said tho passenger pigeon caico from I the south where I have millions pigeon frlenJs Sometimes wo would all fly at once then wo looked liko a big black storm When we all sang coo together it sounded as if tho clouds wore singing I flew once from tho Carolina rice fields to Now York in six hours JSI b 4i i THE SEVEN PIGEONS said tho carrier pigeon once carried j fetter which was pinned under my wing by 1 Si little girL I carried it one hundred and fifty miles in nn hour But tho little girl j I batlicd my feel in vinegar bofore I started fco thor would keep cooL From lots la I came said the fourth pigeon While thero I looked in an open win j i < lair Therosat a man iimued Krilof writing fables Ho scattered over his beautiful carpets car-pets some oats bo I went in and began to eat liciu My pigeon friends went in too but i I ibo door opened and frightened us so that wo Marled to hurry away and broke home vases lild window glass At twilight we all flew I la tlio church I I Just sea what I can do said pigeon turn bier and IIP flow around in the air turned a i iUincrKiult and after tumbling over cnmo ilou u again But tho fan tail pigeon did not say a word Ho only spread out his tail liko an and stood with it behind his head I can eat grain said a common pigeon and then from a pocket in my crop 1 can gut milk to mix with it and feed it to my i rno little babies in the pigeon rotlritt1 tetra and Women |