Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1919 — Praise for Yellow Hammer. [ARTICLE]

Praise for Yellow Hammer.

Few birds have so many scandals connected with their names as the yellow hammer has in England, where the old wives used to tell that the scratches and hieroglyphics on its eggs were the handwriting of old Nick himself. They do say, too, that this bird “drinks a drap o’ the deevil’s blood every Monday morning,” certainly a bad way to begin the week. So far as I can learn the yellow hammer is really a harmless chap. Fve always loved the name given by the Italians to the young of this species which is “rigoletto,” the name of the court fool in a well-known opera.—Exchange.