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Show BLUE JAY IS PROFANE. ' Bad Habit Not Confined Solely th. Human Family. "Did you ever hear a bin. jay awcur!" v f 1 y The .peaker, one of the ornithic, gists of thn Academy of Nutural . enccs, smiled during tho sllenc. iiat followed bla uue.tloii and then nL I coeded: T Well. 1 have; lot. of times. Hal. often laughed heartily nt the prorati. Ily of tho blue jay. This bird only swears when It , cracking hlckoty nuts. Tho hickory has a pretty ,-oV cret. solid kind of shell, and to brosk It open th. blue Jay has to bit ll ury bard. ' "He perrhcg blmself on a fenrs rni. wun ine nut between his claws, ll. holds the nut firmly on the wk,d and. drawing bark his head to theut niot limit of hi. neck, he ban. n,ttT with Ma hllt-litm hiffl blff!lu,u (he shell breaks. "It Is when he misses his aim a at tb. blue Jay swears when b. strlUs bis foot Instead of the nut with t( bill. Ho carries on dreadfully ttQ He acta llko n mini who had bar,d hla tinners with . hammer. Tarowj,, the nut fur from him ,8 hops aromJ on one foot, and the air U tilled win, the most horrible oaths. "Keally, joking a.ldo," th. oml. tholoulst conclmlod, "a bin. ( voice, when h. hits his foot In crwn Ing a nut. la the most angry, n,o,t p.nolradng thing lu the worlds. I chatter of tokb aud pain and dlt.,. that can be heurd luo yards tuJ th. fl.lda." 1 i i |