Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-05-24
Col. Posinn to inc Boys.

must relate little anegdote regard ing cookery. At Tubac WIS used to have q Sunday dinner for all the employees and persons connected with the "Com- pany." One Sunday We had some wild turkeys and Brunckow 'olunteered to go out the kitchen and help old Fritz. tine steward of the compaI y, cook them. They were so ely pasted with bacon, with chestnuts, with billote,. with pin yones, that l re.arSed to Brunckow from the head O. th table, intending a compliment, ''Bruackow, you must have been cook for the ki 2 of Germany" No. sir,' he replied. T was cook for a foreigner in Texas T cooked fof my self"
 Blue Jays are numerous in the coun- try but they are generally considered a uulsance, and are allowed to be shot.
 The Mountain Running Bird has been generally considered untsmeRble, out last summer, m the Santa Catal ina, l found nest near my stone cabin, and placed box over the eggs and when the young birds matched fed them with honey, through straw, and they were very gentle and tame. You can catch more birds with honey than with vinegar.
 Rocking birds are abundsnt and, &C., cording to musical accomplishments. sometimes sell for Sl5 to S2J. It Is a southern songster.
 The ground squirrel Is of no value ex- ! cept for his skin, which Is beautiful. Pigeons may be caught Tn the nest or in transit. They are very prolific and easily domesticated. As birds of passage | they may Ue used to convey messages | fastened around their beaks, the male Co | the female.
 DOyes.-The ordinary dove is found | all over Arizona. as fresh us tt came | from the ark. But the Syrian dove. | about q third the size of the ordinary
 dove, is only found in Arizona, and coos
 as 1t did in Jerusalem I.SSi years ago
 a psean of peace.
 Whoever likes to hear the Chevates
 tor black birds) sing III the spring may | come tO Arizona. NhosOever does not like tn hear the song of the bird m the
 spring may stay away, and We will wei
 come his absence.
 The frogs even sing theIr lullaby si
 sundown. and sell for 8 a dozen in San
 Francisco. The little frog catcher, Jean,
 k immortalizad Ill the Forest and | Stream" and desires no moro honor, but
 ''dinero DOT mujer, que IS inamOrddo,
 money to marry girl he Is Tn love
 with.
 The top-knot quail may be classed as
 the great food bird of ArizOna-yOu nay eaten wagon load on the Giia river road n a day. and their meat k excel | lent for fOod-dehciOus.
 The road runner. called by the Mex | jeans 'paysano,' and by Us "chapparal cock" is a curiousIty. That they kill | snakes I am convinced. l have seen | "corralsr of chOyas filled with the bones uf dead snakes where the chappgral
 cock had surrounded them and torment | ed them to death. 4 Mexican never
 kills chapparai cock.
 IT you kill hawk and carry 1t into a Mexican town, the ladies will send you | dozen eggs whether 1t is in gratitude | for killing the hawk or lively expecta- | tiOns of favOrs to ccme e-qulen sabe: The bison. the original beef, Is disap- ! bearing from the plains before the jug | gernaut uf civilization. His hump was good like that of the Hindoo OK
 that have eaten in sacgednes, in the East Indies.
 The anteiope-In early days had Q ' lOt Of Apache mausCs (tame) )- Apaches
 here and at the headquarters at Tubac. who were excellent hunters. 1 gave | them guns, ammunition. blankets, rA- bGns aud blanket for each animal kill el. They were ss;llfGl hunters of the | autelaps. They would come tO the store
 ant gel, a red wOOlen shIrt aud then they
 wouli put dried antel pc skin over their heads and go shooting. The ante lOpe would stand in am6zement to see
 an antelope with red shirt on and get | killed like sheep.
 The mountain sheep of this country
 are sound meat. some wool and good horns. They are now nearly extinct,
 and but few are found.
 | There is Gn ibex m Arizona which has
 never been caught; but have seen them
 mauy times-very like tn. Ibex you see
 in the Geological gardens al London
 from PersIa-a very gentle fawn. The pcecari or wild hog k yet m exis-
 tence antl may be improved by cnltiva- tion (as everything may bel but In Q | natural state the meat K not excellent, and unless the musk bag Is removed in
 time is offensive.