| Show the wilcid of f the crow A naturalist who la Is much interested in birds says saya that the crow is the wis est eat of all feathered animals ile he has made a number of exper ments meats recently and de declared clarea that an ordinarily well 0 educated crow can count to twenty and that he has found a sentinel crow very old and ner cr wise that can lount i to twenty six ile he made these thee discoveries in a very ery interesting way recently he spent some time in the mountains of wales where a company of boys aas camping out one day he foien 4 faunl I 1 a flock of clovis gathered round the body of P bp that had died and which iti a barn they flew away as 1 li approached so BO lie he hid him self in th the birn barn and Nv waltel altel but they would not come back then he abent ent out and Nal walked ked up the mountain and they all settled down don again to the feast that afternoon lie he took four bos aiom the camp with nith him and they maicher into the little building and waltel waited no crows cime came back two of the bivs went out still no crows then the other two NN went ent out and only the natu but the old gen sentinel tinel crow had evidently counted them olem is 13 thea the went in and he knew thy hid not all come out at last the natural left the building and straightway all the crows returned this earl ment wis repeated repealed a number of times with vat ang numbers of boys but the rons crows kept count and woud not como come down don until the building was entirely empty |
