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Show The English sparrows have proved prov-ed a nuisance in the cotton country, coun-try, for as soon as the balls open they pick out the cotton and carry it oil", and some planters have lost, they claim, hundreds of pounds in this way. There is one man, however, how-ever, in DeWitt County, says the Galveston Nows, that has not lost mucli. When he found the sparrows spar-rows were committing depredations he procured a quantity of wheat,; soaked it in sweetened whiskey and ' 3 re wed it along the rows. The sparrows found it and thought they had a picnic. So they had. But in fifteen or twenty minutes there was the tipsiest lot of English sparrows ever seen on the face of tho earth. They rolled about the ground, falling on their sides and backs and kicking their heels into the air like a parcel ot drunkards, all t he while uttering the most comical squeaks. They did not have long to squeak, however, for the boys gathered them up and threw them into bags. The first day they gathered two bushels of drunken sparrows. Three or four days later the experiment was repeated re-peated with almost equal success, and from time to time since. They made excellent potpie, but the survivors sur-vivors have come to regard the plantation plan-tation as hoodooed, for now very few come about it. |