Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
Letters to the ChiIdren---No. 4.

REV. ). A. HATES.
"Caw cav cav !" were the last sounds
we heard last night, and perhaps the first
we hear as we wake early this morning.
But soon there is a medley of sounds. 1t
seems as if flock of blackbirds, a few
crows, dozen hens, who have each Just
laid an egg, few geese, and about twenty
blue-jays, were all talking at once Now
aud then goat and dog join in the chorus.
Come, we will go out aud see the birds
and animals this morning God has made
great many pretty birds up here in Yer
mont but think you will say the birds of
Ceylon are far more beautiful. Even orr
old friend, the crow, is not all black here.
His neck and breast are of slate color.
See them up there on that old tree What
a lot of them They are not afraid of you
at all. If you throw a stone at them, they
go cawing away but soon come back again.
That old tree is their home. There will be
perhaps hundred of them there every night.
They have built their nests all around on
the large trees But don't shoot them, Tom.
They are our friends, for they gather up all
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tree too
But there are some animals here that use'
to bother Rover more than the squirrel
did-the monkeys They are the most sauc.
animals ever saw How they would pro
woke brother Tom. They sometimes conn
and steal the cocoanuts. Tom couldn'
scare them away with stones. don't know
as they would catch the stones and throw
them back at him, but have read of sucl
things Tom might pretend he had gun
and point stick at them, but they woul'