Show OP ox OM E BIRD binn fort FOR A crow COW starving ing I himself for grief some weeks n eels si since nee mr pratt tho the senior proprietor of the spencer houle owl itose i 1 rt 1 and a crow that tha t had apparently formed a deep n t fo for r each other they were always together and seemed 0 to hold a kind ot mutual conversation which it however 0 w e v e r unintelligible to ta others must have given them great satisfaction d is the rho crow would often of ten bring food to the owl and was always anxious anxious t to 0 do somo some act that would w prove accetta accey able the firm fr friendship I 1 i end I 1 exis existing between t the two to birds was v as E the subject abject of general remark by the guests and hat hal etues of the hotel v who ho frequently watched matched them by the hour their intimate association and kindness ivere really curious to witness and elicited many speculations ions upon the nature of birds and their capability of af affection one day the owl ol 01 fell ill and the crow ever ev er at his side expressed as much sar sorrow arid and sym sympathy as a human creature could appealing ever and anon by looks to passersby passers by lay as if inviting aid and comfort for his sick friend the owl alvas w as dangerously indisposed for nearly a week and at the termination ot o ahat period died in m hiie spite of every effort of the crow to prolong his istance dixi i tence stence the crow was inconsolable nothing ing could banish the memory of his feathery friend and little doubt existed in in our mind that had he been a poet he would daveli hive written ritten another adonais or in memoriam Mem onam upon his hia mournful bereavement he would eat nothing L f no savory sav ory morsel could tempt jinn him and the choicest bits of his favorite dav one food lav near him day and night untouched L the dark luster of the e eyes es of the lamenting montin fowl grew dimmer ind and datil dimmer in his dim diminutive I 1 flutine flu tive legs weaker and weaker famine e was in in his every ev ery aspect but still he would not eat cat in the flippant language of the day lie he would die first arid and he did one morning early earl the senior senior proprietor etor who was much attached to both the owl and the crow found the latter 15 I 1 ing lifeless in in the courtyard court yard the poor bird was bothin nothing but bones not a particle of flesh sh remaining ining beneath his ebony plumage the crow had been true to his hia friendship as an orm cal orestes and had resolutely connier con od ed wath heroic self denial a life not 4 worth preserving atter after the loss of his other soul the owl |