The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-02-21

days, he told her, and Mrs Dean con-
sented TO let the crow stay on the prem
ises.
On two Monday mornings in success
sion Mr. Dean fastened Jim Frisbie in
the hen house, but when he went to
look for the crow on the third Monday
Jim was nowhere to be found. Nothing
was seen q him during the forenoon.
but while Mr. Dean and his wife were
at dinner Jim yelled at them from tho
top of one Of the elo,hes-line posts. The
clothes had been taken in, and they
paid no attention to the crow. Along
in the afternoon they found out where
Jim had been All the morning. Mr..
Deans brother Hora 70 owns the adioin-
ing farm down the creek. One OF
Horace's boys came up in the afternoon
and told Mr.. Dean that his crow had
stuck his bill through lot Of their gar.
ments that were drying on the clothes
line, and he said that his father was
going to shoot the crow If Mr. Dean
didn't keep i'm at homo in the future.
Later Mr. Dean learned that, on the
same afternoon, Jim Frisbie had com
mitted similar depredations on Mrs.
Alexander Cass' clothes-line, further
down the creek, and that he had sailed
from there to Charles S. Dedrick's place,
lower down in the valley, where he had
torn slits in several frozen sheets, pill
low-cases. and other articles that were
hanging on Mrs. Dedrick's line. Jim
stayed around home all the rest Of the
NrrpIr utl Nh 10 In,
elusion that the crow knew Monday
morning rolled around as well as he did
himself So he made up his mind to
cage Jim before night-fall Of the follow
ing Sunday, but when he went out to
call the willy bird TO him, he found that
the CROW had gone to roost in the very
top of a tall pine tree, just back Of the
house. lie WAS unable to induce Jim TO
come down, and on Monday morning
the crow WAS among the missing again.
lie returned a little after noon, and
the next day Mr. Dean heard that his
black pet had been using his bill pretty
freely on Mrs. William O. Dnyton's
washing, two and a half miles down the
valley. From there Jim had sailed over
the fields 10 D. A. Thompson's place on
Willow creek. Mrs Thompson had
caught him in the act Of thrusting his
beak through some OF her things on the
line, and she had flung basket Mt him,
hit him with 1t, and made him fly away
Jim sailed straight over to SINNERS
creek, and on the same forenoon Giles
Griifen shot at him, but failed to reach
the mark
Mr.. Dean then kept Jim Frisbie in
confinement for fortnight. One Mon
day morning he thought he would turn
him loose to see how he would act The
crow flew about the farm all day, acting
as he had done in the fall, and didn't 90
near Mrs. Deans line OF clothes. lie
ran away again along in March Some
body shot the nail OF Of the middle toe
Of his right foot, and he nursed the
wound and behaved himself for more
than month"; Then his mania for
tackling clothes-linos came on once
more, and nc sailed three miles from
home to raise havoc with Mrs. Carrie
Jenkins pillow shams and pocket hand
kerchieis Alfred Jenkins shot at him,
and Jim flew right home, and didn't
leave the place for good while.
Then, after he had committed one or
two more such depredatiOns, he was
placed in solitary confinement and Mr..
Dean thought Of giving him a dose or
chloroform and having the skin stuffed
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