The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-06-18
CALLED HIM OTHELLO.
THE NAME OF A VERY REMvRK-
ABLE TAME CROW.
E.aised ms n Pet and Did Many Wonder
ful Thines-Actuaily Fell In Love
with Girl, and When She
Died Ho Died, Too.

you've heard all about crows In
general how they can distinguish
mile away tho difference between man
with wooden gun and n man with
real gun. loaded; how they post senti-
nels to warn them OF approaching
danger while they are looting your
corntield and how they do thou
sand and one other things that only
reasonable beings could do; but you
evidently never saw u crow who had
developed under the improved intlu-
ences OF civilized society,"" said q man
from Passaic county to New York Sun
reporter. Such one was Othello.
One OF my boys found this crow in the
woods when he was still too young to
fly having been tumbled out of his
nest by high wind. My boy brought
him home cared for him tenderly and
succeeded in raising him by hand.
LAS he grew we got to atfectionate-
ly calling him Old Follow. but that
soon got corrupted into Othello. a
name which certain trait OF char ac-
ter subsequently developed made very
appropriate The genius OF this crow,
early asserted itself in the facility with
which he learned the English Ian
guage. Any crow taken young and
treated properly can be taught to
speak many words but this crow nc
quired an amazing vocabulary. STILL
he was never very laxative his ia
) vorite expressions being. .Hullo
| George! How's PeggyP G'lang.
! g'lang! and startlingly realistic
imitation OF the clicking sound per-
son makes to start horse with or hur-
ry it up.
The George referred to was my
self Peggy was the young wife Of q
man who worked for me and lived in
|; the house. Peggy being a servant in
the family. Othello wasn't on speak
. ing terms with Peggys husband, and
that was why he always inquired Of
me as to the state OF Peggy's health
II he didn't see Peggy around any
where And what do you suppose was
,, the reason Othello wasn't on speaking
terms with Peggy's husbandp Because
/ he was dead in love with Peggy and
, insanely jealous OF the husband! It's
. as true as tell you. Lord! What a
crow that was! Dead in love with
. Peggy should say SO! We discov-
I cred that before the crow was six
/, months old. He showed it in hun
bred ways, but most by his uncontrol-
liable jealousy when Peggy came
= around where he was. He'd strut and
) fume and often fly savagely at the
I young farmer; and. to tease him, Peg
4 gy would often lay her head on her
: husbands shoulder. and perhaps kiss
him or pretend to. and then Othello
. would almost go wild.
: One day Peggy and her husband
: were going to town. He had horse
q that was safe enough ordinarily. but
needed but little provocation to start
I him going and then he was hard to
0 stop. Othello had been brooding over
/! Peggy in a disconsolate way for two
! or three days. When she got in the
wagon that morning the love-sick crow
: sat on the gate,pos near by gazing at
| her. Her husband had gone to the
/, barn after something. The relns
hung loose on the dash board. was
{ at the gate and l saw look OF des-
, peration come over Othello's face.
Suddenly he made a dash Sor the
, wagon and pumped down by Peggy's
side.
.'Ge-e-ed APT" he shouted to tn Q
,, horse. and followed the cry by tn q
impelling click all horses know.
Tho horse started. with Othello
, yelling and clicking at him like mad
, and before any one had time to do or
say word. away the horse was going
! on dead gallop down the road, and
in jiffy had disappeared in cloud
OF dust around the bend. There was
only one explanation. Othello. grown
, desperate had simply stolen Peggy
: and was running away with her.
, Peggy's husband mounted another
horse and started after them. Three
miles down the road he cans up with
| them-at least with the horse and
wagon and Peggy. The runaway had
been stopped by team coming in the
. opposite direction. Nobody was hurt.
but Othello was missing. The bad
, crow evidently knew what the result
, OF his folly would be. and had disap-
peared. Six months passed. and in
: the meantime Peggy had died of a
, fever One afternoon I was on my
way home from town. and was driving
; by the place where Othello had been
.. foiled in his attempt TO steal Peggy.
when / was startled to hear hoarse
, and quavering voice exclaim:
, /" ,Hullo. Georger
. Il looked up and there sat Othello.
, thin and disheveled. on fence stake
, stopped and called him. and he got
! into the wagon by my side. He didn't
say word until we got pretty near
home. and then he said:
'Hullo George! How's Peggy
'In spite OF his foolish indiscretion
, everybody was glad to see Othello
, back again. But he wasn't the same
crow. He soon found out what had
? become OF Peggy. One day saw
! him busy at something in one OF the
flower beds. l watched him. He
plucked lot OF flowers and then TAX
ing them in his mouth by the stems
he started over toward the little
graveyard on the hill followed
him. He went straight to poor Peg
|, gy's grave. laid the flowers on 1t
!, stood there In mournful contemplation
for while md then went back home.
, The next day Othello lay on the bot
tom OF his box. dead as q stone.