The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-08-25
THE STORY OF A BAD BIRD.

THE STORY OF A BAD BIRD.
It is painful to think that any bird
could be really wicked; for birds-es-
specially chubby birds almost ALWAYS
seem good and innocent, aud look as if
their fat little breasts grew so because
there we're warm httle1hearts inside.
And bird has a way OF looking you
straight in the face with his bright little
eye, that makes you believe he IS honest
and is not ashamed of ii. Birds have
made splendid record in the world. /
never knew bird to tell a lie, except
ing this bad bird, and certainly nosbird
was ever known to rob bank or forge
check.
But, sad as it to think so, there have
been birds. and this one, whose story /
am about to tell, was SO very bad that.
in fairness to other birds, it should be
understood that he was very unlike
them. The fact is, he.was a downright
cheat. He was nothing but common
hlackbird, who had never been to school
9 day in his life, and yet he set himself
up for bird-doctor, called himself DR..
Black, and put on all sorts of medical
airs he even went so far as to pretend
that ne was crow, and had studied
medicine, and been made q doctor sd
the famous Crow College out West, al
though he had neverso much as seen il.
Perhaps you have never heard of
Grow College before? Well, that is not
strange, for if had not had some very
highly-educated birds among my friends
lbelieve | should never have heard of
i itmyself A great deal depends upon
tne KIND OF birds you associate with. 1t
y . college where crows study to be
doctors (The bird-doctors are ALWAYS
erows-did you know that?) There are
forty teachers in the college, all of them
crows, very Learned and Very black,
and the head of the faculty is a solemn
old raven, who came over from the
Raven University in Arabia Just to be
the head of this college. He is so old
hat he can't remember how many
hundred years it is since he was born.
and, as he has never been known to
open his mouth, excepting to eat, he is
believed BY everybody to be wonder
The college classes meet in the upper
ora1ches Of the trees in u great Vest
ern iorest II you passed by there you
would think, of course, that it was
merely flock of noisy crows chatter
ing ogether. But if you could see up
q 4 the tops OF the trees you would see
=, .ae Old raven doing, with his specta-
cles on his nose, and the teachers
explaining, all at once, about the.
bones and veins Of birds and their
NV diseases. and sallS the classes
studying hard, like good little crows.
n.a.. nus mere !s one sad thing about the
sfow College. Growadoctors 8 have
slOupie sometimes in getting paid, andg
9 crows must live, there is one crow.
PROFESSOR who gives his whole time to
sacllng the best way to steal corn.
ana am sorry to add that the corn
cisss M Is alwaysthe iargest9elass of all.
!, 3. ans way Dr. Black set himself up in
E.s Maesice will show you what q .clever.
s'sle rogue he was. Have you ever
sceh I Stuyvesant Square in New York
:. vod many of you must have seen it.
!. !. y one Of the oldest parks in the city:
~ ~ Ueorge's Church stands beside il.
s.,u $ away up in the great towers of the
9 church the clock strikes every lew min
!. 49, = With agentle. friendly sound, as if |
ios, / ~sle .n telling the children playing be-
spm .,n,,.s mat another quarter of an hour has
sod sode, "a. ana they must enjoy all the hours
ana minutes that are LEFT.
IN. unthis pleasant I'D park there is j
llsal'aln, l;tsa and insthe feuntain there is a
nv: sIssie fait OF wood about foot SQUARE.
aa anls rat is anchored with a stone. and
eaon''n eng cna runs shnder the water lust
II ;n.s = s . let the birds skip down upon
h..h 'o sne water and have a splendid |
Il IN, = ana skip back upon the dry part
Il i. .ae BOARD. Now it SO happened
aam asss 'ne PARK poiicemaa. ssmttting
can can TAT ~ its place when Dr.. Black
es,,st ay nymg over the park. That /
ssa. ss.snt his wicked little eve. and he
I'd rpsai ~ ne alighted ON tree right at
be nm eAthe fountain and seemed to
Ibss nSiilg very hard. It was q SIGN /
serst.l rs ne was doing this when he
a ~, asu himself as near to his head as
bimsy"a,..u ya.u get his foot and he scratched /
4nsef several times.
nsia saslly when his mind seenaed tobe |.
AVA Y. and the policeman had gone |.
nd s.a y; black flew down to the board |.
nm 5000 on it. Meanwhile, he care
ooI.as as'Rked his feathers until he
lpeeteh,s" J ]" smooth so blacls and so re-
Il saole waa that you would have said
gOn ,sas mas bird-doctor the minute |.
|bonaJsosA JoAea E at him, and you would have /
s nim one OF the most respects