The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-01-13
VOL. XXXVIII---NO. 2.
srPERsTT1IoNs 4BOUT CR0WS

There are, perhaps, few who have
not heard of crows that zone is lucky,
two is unlucky, three is health, four
is wealth, five sickness ana six death. :
The unluckiness of one living crow
is of ancient date, since the Greeks
believed that if such a bird appeared
at a wedding breakfast there would
be divorce, to avert which all
roared out, Maiden, scare away the
crow
But of far greater antiquity was the
belief that if the one crow were dead
the evil pOrtent also persisted, since,
according to Horus Apollo Hierog
H., SIT signified extreme old age, or
IL very long life, according to what
Hesiod tells us, is quoted by Plutarch
in his 'Oracles,n that the crows live
nine times as long as Il man.
The belief that two crows are a hap
Ply omen, and that they appear to
warm men from disaster, is very an
cient. Alexander the Great was thus
saved i'll Egypt by two crows, and
King AlOnZo would assuredly have
persisted in 1147 had it not been for
two crows, one OF which perched OH
the prov and the other on the stern
of his ship, so pointing the prov of
the royal barge safely into port.
Crows and rocks are very much
alike. 1t is said that when rocks de-
sert rookery it forebodes the down
fall of the family on whose property
it is. They are also credited with be
ing good weather representations
When the weather is about to be bad
they stay rs near h0me as possible :;
but when they foreknOw that it will
be set fair they start off in the morn
ing right away to IL distance, where
they have an instinct that the food
they need is plentiful. Again, if the
rocks are seen venturing into the
streets of town or village, it is a sure
sign of an approaching snowstorm.
To dream you see crow signifies
expedition of business if you hear
them croaking unpieasantly while
they are flying, it is sign of ill-luck.
If you see i'll your dream the crow
flying on the head of IA child il will be
i'll danger of some misfortune.
THE PARROT GOT ETEN
There is gentleman living on West
Adams street who has Il parrot that
is always set on having lis own way,
says the Chicago NchrS. Each at
tempt that its owner has made to
teach the un.uly bird Irw tricks or
new words has siSnally failed, unless
Mr.. Pol. has been III particularly good
humOr.
y few days ago the gentleman made
up his mind he'd train the parrot to
address him by his proper title of
Father"
Taking the parrot from off his perch,
the owner c;tressed him and said !:
Now, Poll cute Poll call me Faith
err"
Poll cooked his head to one side
and blnked his eye. as much as to
say, "Oh, come off . Don't try yer
funny business on me"
\ little nettled, but not to be de-
fcated, the paterfamilias shook the
bird and again commanded sternlv:
Say 'Fatner'-say Father you
wretched bird" But neither petting
nor threats were sufficient to make the
refractory pupil attempt III the least
TO do us hidden.
Several similar and fruitless trials
were gone through, and finally the
owner became rather provoked him
self, and taking the parrot by one
foot and carrying him out into the
NdTNl JUST US ONE "OGNl NlIlIlS vi
sausage, he declared to his wife:
IN fix him. I'll make him SO
ashamed he'll give in. He'll say
Father or by thunder I'll wiring his
neck" And forthwith 1t chicken
coop was tipped II little to one side
and stubborn Poll was thrust in
among dozen chickens.
There, said the man Of Adams
street, NOW well see, and he went
back into the house.
In an hour or SO lie pushed open
the kitchen door, stepped out, and he
did see"
Upon the ground, inside of the
coop, stood Mr.. Parrot, lord of the
manor. About him lay eleven dead
chickens, and with his claw clasped
on the neck OF the twerth, the parrot
was squawiig in his highest key:
Say Father, say Father or by
thunder I'll wiring yer neck -