Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-01
Chilly 9pnpIulu 9rrss.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER !, 1885
THE r4Lr or roon usx.
A Land Of Peace aud Plenty. Where In,
crors are fM Of Wisdom And
Know Enough TO Proride for
Thensefres Upon all

gropes its slothiut way along the western edge
OF Sussex county, to eventually become an
integral part of.the great Drowned Lands Of
New Jersey and New York, good farming
land is plenty, and the follower Of the pillow
grows fat and rich.
Nowhere, perhaps, in all the land Of Jersey
does the industrious and melhuous crow
abound and appear more thrifty then in
Pochunk's garden spot. Yet, prevalent and
obtrusive as the crow is in that section, none
Of those iearfully and wonderfully made
cfigies which the old time farmer fondy be.
lieved carried terror to the soul Of the
marauding crow is to be seen guarding the
cornheld. The Pochunk farmer does not
dangle carcasses OF dead crows from networks
Of twine 10 convey to the minds OF live ones
the alarming impression that the dead birds
were caught and hanged while visiting the
field to undo the planters work; nor does he
hang gyrating fragments Of dazzling tin from
lofty poles to awaken suspicion in the prowling
devastator Of the cornheld. | suggested to a
representative Pochunk tillcr Of the soil that
these facts were odd
''Y-a-a-s," said he sit does look SO. But we
used TO set up the scarnest o all scarecrows,
an run miles an miles o cord round the fields
an use ourseis up tryin' to think o. ways to
ketch crow or two to hang on the strings;
an the hunks O. tin we used to tie to poles d
single all the roofs in the county. But when
we took to seein' the crows, years an yearsago,
lightin on the scarecrows an tcarn their
clothes off, an then takin' the pieces O. rags
an foldin 'em up inter little bags, which they
carried with EN- over the field an filled with
the corn they dug up an flew away with,
pecks an pecks that they couldn't a-got no
other way. we jist met an pas, resolutions
TO let the scarecrows 60 an we did. Then the
crows got to doin's all sorts o. crcusin on the
Irvine we stretched, an d cut the dead crows
from the strings an jst take their carcasses
straight inter the cornhelds, dig graves fur EN-
in the hills o corn an plant EN- with lar
hnerl ceremonies. When we see that, we met
an passed another resolution to use the string
for set lines for cells, an, the string had to 60.
We stuck to the swingin' an clatterin' an
dazzlin tin, but I'm blamed il the crows
didn't take to settlin' ON them poles an
smusn' theirsclfs by turnin them bright
pieces o tin so they'd throw the reflection
O the sun inter our eyes so durn
sharp that there want man ez could
see 10 work in the fields. So we had TO
either give up corn plantin or sell the tin,
fur old iron, and we did. Then we tried
the soakin' O the seed corn in pizen,
That knocked lot o the crows, an we
found good many Of EN- dead around
the deestric'. We met an howlcd fur jy, an
passed resolution that we had em now.
But we didn't know the capacity o Pochunk
crows. One day we diskivered the crows a.
workin' as lively as ever on the pizen corn,
an noticed that ev'ry one CA EN-, arter he'd
dug up an goluped few hills, d stick his
head under his right wing an peck away ut
sunpin there. an then perceed with the feast
We didn't find no more dead crows, an We
passed resolution that sumpin was up. One
night went GU, an dug hole in one corner
my eornheld' deep enough 10 bury myself
in, an buried myself IN it all but my eyes an
nose and the tip end o my shotgun. An
there ! staid, hold up like grounding till
ay.ght Bright an 'arly down come lot o
crows TO make their brsakfas, on the p1en
corn. One o the black fellows cot nigh
ehous" 70 MS ." ''aos" "'"' W Wv" 9"Y', ,
ana ne s'ayeu "eh' ID MS ''"eNS' ne 'es'io
Inc crows, Q COURSE was a "''e away =" 80, u
no 'mc' aug myself out ana p'eNeo up INC
ueao crow 'ooNea uh'e' "'s ''s"' wing q"
mustard wild mosard was sure antido,e 10
the pizcn we had in that seed corn, and them
crows had Js' gathered some Of II every tlme
ihey made a 'ad on the corn an 'ad 'opped
cbaw o mustard, KNOWN that i, d knock spots
cut'n The prizen Then we did meet. An we
passed resolution tina, il want no use,
All bu, OF Squire spooner. He said he couldn't
ie'ch hissen 70 pehSe IN inc doc'ufn 'o'a'
depraw'y' even IN crows lie sao ne pheVe
'na' 'hey cou'u ieau' an 'ha' !" 'hey sec ''"'
we was willih 70 90 'he flsN' 'iHhg ny en-
'hey 10 Tue iigh' 'h'ng py US
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