| Show ABOUT THE AGE or OF A CROW agag A tag would indicate that one lived more than twenty years A farmer living nar mar oriville ohio says a of the globe line has just lec jec elved a much priced aluminum plate maikel as fol lows iowa return to gcorge mccarren orrville 0 with which an interest ing Is connected george mccahren Mc Cairen sr father of the mill who the little billot billet of aluminum was mas an eccentric naturalist and spent much time lu ili the studa stud of birds and during Alc mccarren Carren a auth about twenty deais eais ago lie says ays lie remembers being told by his father tile the blaer McCar mccaren tn of a tile dla the latter had with a fellow not nat at aid altion on ohio as to the ago age to be attained by a common clow find and finally to settle the matter mccahren Mc Cairen attached an aluminum tag to the crow captured in the fields and sent the bird foith with the plate securely fastened to its neck by wires 0 ires the legend on the plate the finder to return it to mccarren in case ant an thing bing should happen tri tn the he bird ai roii jr remembers it the efto tn 0 men made it bet as ai to whether bether m the plate would mould be returned twin ty years it the crow were killed or tied died they counted on oil the little billet being found and le ie turned t the ad diess on tho the plate it this were mere not ic ie turned they it would mould be suf frelent evidence that the bird would mould ue ai still alive mccathen Mc Cairen Catren bet that the plate would not be returned within that time hence he won the bet the clow waa as tilled killed by a farmer boy named angers in holmes county lest menk and the billet rt turned to the son of the better the eldar mccarren lim having ing died before ho he could I 1 leall ealine zetho the proceeds ds and the satisfaction of v vin in ing tila his mager thi the lettla bet is highly ailred by tle it cairens as a memento of the fi fitl Kra |
