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Show Tlia Wliilom of tlm Crow. A naturallstwho Is much Interested In birds says' that the crow Is the wisest wis-est of all feathered animals. Ho has mado a numborof cxper.ments recently, recent-ly, and declares that an ordinarily woll educated crowcan count to twenty, nnd that he has found a sentinel crow, very old and vcrywlso, that can count to twenty-six. iHp'mnde these discoveries In a very Interesting way. Recently ho spent somoj(tlrno In tho mountains of Walos, wliere a company of boys was camping out. Ono day ho found a flock of crows gathered round the body of a a'heop that had died, and which lay nonrn barn. Thoy flew away as ho o'ppjoached, so ho hid himself him-self In tho barn"nnd waited; but thoy would not como back. Then ho wont out and walked up the mountain, and thoy all settled down ngaln to tho foast. That afternoon ho took four boys from tho camp wiFh" him nnd thoy marched Into tho llttlo building and waited. No crows camo back. Two of the boys wont out. Still no crows. Then tho other two went out, nnd only tho naturalist natu-ralist remained, But tho old sentinel crow had ovldontly counted them as thoy went in, and ho know they had not all como out. At last tho naturalist natural-ist left the building and straightway all the orows returned. This experiment experi-ment wns repeated a number of times with varying numbers of boys, but tho crows kept count, nnd would not como down until' tho building was entirely ompty. , |
