Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — The Crow. [ARTICLE]

The Crow.

| I have seen no bird walk the ground with the same air the crow does. It Is not exactly pride; there Is no strut or swagger in. It, though perhaps Just a little condescension; it is the (contented and self-possessed gait of a lord over his domains. All these (acres are mine, he says, and all these crops; men plow and sow for me, and J stay here or go there, and find'life ' sweet and good wherever I am. The hawk looks awkward and out of place on the ground; the game birds hurry and skulk, but the crow is at home and treads the earth as if there'were none to molest or .make him afraii. —John Burroughs.