Show ta H L J ABUSED CROW it makes me pretty angry at times said bald charlie crow what at makes you angry caw caw caw what makes you airry ai ati iry gry ns nall asked ll mrs charlie crow the formers farmers make me finery their lick lack of apar appreciation clathon ot of tile me s tile me fed terribly oil oh it is beyond lorils nt at times to tell how sail sad 1 I feel and charlie crow wept a tear fell on oil his handsome black coat poor sald said mrs crow my poor child charlie for mien lien lie ile was feeling sad wid and mournful mol sirs crow always treated him as Is though ile he were it child crow instead ot of a grownup grown brown up mr crow and they still put the scarecrows scare crows in their field they still do you incon those creatures ninde made out of sticks stick and things which tire are dressed up like ilia men with gunell asked mrs crow yes they are called scarecrows scare crows said charlie Ch artle they are put in tho fields to s are away tile the crows and that Is why they have such a namo nama you see gee scarecrows scare peare crows or let U ui sc scare ll e the crows all ah that is a sad slid and sorry tile talc iuliu said mrs crow to think of fit farm scarecrows scare crows in III c ors rs still putting puffin those tile fields wl why ly they actually keep many daiy crows away awny we understand them we know they tire are only make believe m men en and that they carry only make ie lieve guns but its its not kind of the farmers to try to frighten us away AV we a are really such rood good friends of the farmers so said charlie that is 19 where hie file sad part of it comes in oh flear oil oh ile dear ir and poor mr charlie Cli arlie crow wept nept ti another nother bitter tear which nigle made lits his black cont cent quite wet mrs charlie C crow row took her r maple test leaf which mr crow had bad civet givet her on her last birthday she lind had birthdays very often so as to get lots of presents ind and wiped tile the wet spot which miten had been made by the tear aront weeper weep Mr crow dont weep charlie old boy nothing pi Is so bad that it miKh tnt be worse Iv aheard wise people say ali ah so I 1 suppose said charlie Cli arlie nut but I 1 cant think of anything that could lie he worse than the lack of appreciation which the farmers show how me it 1 Is true we do steal the grata and the corn we love corn all crows do and many of us are thieves in fact most of us are thieves I 1 believe hut but we must eat and we must live and if we cant go eo to the markets and put down pennies and nickels and limes dimes for our food we just have to take it as we can we cant shop like people we have no money no pocketbooks no bink accounts the squirrels have savings banks where they save nuts like hildren children save their pennies but we are without all these things we are without till all of them mrs crow and it is most in gulting for the farmers to put scare crows in the fields and it is 14 in more ore hardhearted hard hearted of them to let us think for a moment that they would have gun guns fired off at ti us what they try tomake e it us think yes its hard very very hard bard she said and though I 1 will nill admit that our family does steal and that wo we do rob the lie farmers of some gondles poodles still the harm ve nie in do halt half come up to the hie good we do we eat cat the grubs and different diffene tit kinds of worms which would destroy the corn and we ie reali roa ty save the crops for the farmed far mez many and many a time charlie Cli arlie yes said mrs crow tile hie harm harin we do is little the good we do 0 amounts to a I 1 groat great deal rut but Cliar charlie liP dont be sad or insulted for tiling relight be so much worse you are alive alie well you have a loving mate and a fine brood of ob children ildren you have good iia inga ins opil your handsome black su sul ll 11 you awe live your eyesight and your voice whenever you got get think of 0 the creatures creature who have refit real troubles who alio are sick ind and miserable 1 and I who actually suffer so said charlie Cli arlie my troubles are very few compared to what roine omo creatures cren lures tures have to put up UD with hut bilut I 1 do wish I 1 could tell tel tile the fill farmers mers that I 1 do try to do all I 1 ran can to bop them clen c en if they think it t is imps ble ae for me to have anything anything about me sooner or later know ind anil thank w u said mrs charlie crow |