Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1911 — Country Life. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Country Life.

Not long ago a pair of rooks built their nest In one of a cluster of trees in a gentleman’s grounds. The owner was delighted at the prospect of hav-

ing a rookery practically at his hack door, but the farmer who owned the surrounding land didn’t look at the matter in the same light. The farmer was no great lover of rooks, and he gave his sons orders to "pot ’em” at the first opportunity. One morning the farmer received this note from his neighbor: "Sir, I wish your boys would let my rooks alone. I’m trying to make a rookery.” The farmer altered three words and returned the note: “Sir, I wish your rooks would let my crops alone. I’m trying to make a living.”—London Tit-Bits.