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Show THE INTELLIGENT CROW Somo Rcmnrkablo Stories of "Wisdom Displayed by the Bird at Times. By this tltlo to on artlclo In a recont lsuo by Charles Hullock, I am reminded of many of tho doings of tamo crowa that I havo known. I wonder how many know that by getting a young crow, boforo It Is ablo to fly, and by pa-tlcnco pa-tlcnco and perseverance for a few days, or por-hap3 por-hap3 wcok.H, It can bo taught to talk, and after tho first fow words that it learna to pronounco It learns much fastor than any child that I over knew or heard of. Among wild crows I never havo Been ono that talked, po I cannot say whether talking would frlghton crowB or not. but I presume It would. I wish that a pair of talking crows could bo mated, and ralso a brood to seo whothcr they would teach tholr young to uso humnn speech. Ono of tho talking crows that I havo known was owned by a man of tho namo of Lew La-bady, La-bady, who kept a hotel In Potaskoy. Mich , and -hl3 wlfo ono day. In a Hi of anger, for Eomo misdemeanor that tho crow had cut up, grabbed him nnd took him out in tho yard and chopped his head ofT. tho crow shouting, 'Oh, don't!" "Oil. don't!" as sho carrlod him to tho block. I supposo I 8houldnot write this last part, neither do I know na you will publish It, but I was angry at her for killing tho crow, for I hod ta-Jght Mm to talk eovoral years before, and tho offenso -wns small. Ho had undertaken undertak-en to fly off with a vmall bottle of something. Ink probably, and had dropped It, nnd tho bot-tlo bot-tlo broke, and made a stain on tho carpet. Her husbanl would havo been willing to rocarpet tho room rather than to lose the crow, and ho wan as angry' about It as I was. I don't know that all crowa could ba taught to talk, for It eeems reasonable to me that somo of them might bo much more Intolllgent than others. I have known threo talking crows, and thoy all spoko In a higher koy than pcoplo commonly do, but not more eo than a fow persons that I havo known but their talk la vory much plainer than that of any parrot, and a crow does not use a lot of meaningless words, nnd he knows what ho Is talking about One of theso cro:v3 was owned by & man that lived In Cena, Vppor Michigan I don't know as ho or tho crow cither Is living now or not, for It has been a long tlmo alnco I was there, but that crow had knowlcdgo and command of wit nnd roparteo that would beat tho best criminal lawyer that ever tried to tangle a witness In his evidence. Field and Stream. |