Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — Crane tho Carrier. [ARTICLE]

Crane tho Carrier.

Ercry year, on the approach Of winter, thousands and thousands of birds, littloas well as big ones, have tq leave their summer quarters In search of sunnier lands. How large birds of strong wing can cross such a wide stretch of water as the eastern part of tiie Mediterranean It Is easy to understand, but how do the wee ones, like wrens, titmice, finches and the rest manage It? Why, they ride first-class on the back of cranes. In autumn great flocks of cranes may be seen traveling southwards, flying low and giving forth a strange cry, as If of warning, and they sweep along southwards. *As«oon as they hear this note all kinds of little birds fly up to the cranes and settle on idieir backs, the twitter of those already snugly squatting thereon being audible at times. Then when spring revisit* the north, and it la time for the little things to return to their old haunts, the cranes carry them back again—this time, however, flying high, as if they felt assured their tiny friends would easily reach the earth once the great sea were passed. First Wheelman—“l always get rattled when I see a woman crossing the street ahead of me.” Second Wheelman—“So do I. They have so many pins in their clothes that If a fellow collides with them he Is almost sure to puncture a tire.”— York Mercury. The first thing a man says about Ills enemy Is that he Is crazy.