Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-04
HE WAS MAD.
This Sparrow Thought a Joke Was
Being Played Upon Him.

Being Played Upon Him.
You never saw such a mad sparrow in
your life as the one 1 saw today" said
Van Tope This sparrow was building q
nest and he few down beside a goods box
on the pavement. where he found what
he probably supposed was a beautiful.
straight piece of straw. It happened to be
string, however, and the other end Of
it was caught on a nail in the box.
But the sparrow wist not that 1t was
so. and he grabbed the end of the string
and started gaily away. OF course he soon
brought up with round turn, as the sail
ors say, and found the piece of string jerk
ed away from him. He lit on the ground
and then looked around to see what impu-
dent and envious sparrow had tackled him
for his string. He looked as though he
was ready to lick any sparrow in that
block who should set claim to his string
After standing around as IL daring the
other fellow to knock a chip of his Shout
de-, and the other fellow not showing up,
he grabbed his string and started OF.
Again he was yanked back by the string
and when he lit he fairly danced around
in his wrath. You could Just imagine him
calling that other sparrow all sorts OF
names. He hoped around the goods box
to find him and Lit on the edge to peep In.
After waiting a reasonable length of time
for his tormentor he started OF again and
again was thrown down.
This seemed to get to him. He was
ting up a game on him. and you could inn
agine him saying that he did rot care so
much for the dod-rotted string, but that
he hated to be fooled with in this way by
some young bantling of this years hatch.
Then an idea struck him. He flew off and
got Mrs. Sparrow. He told her about the
matter, and. after giving her instructions
from neighboring tree, he posted himself
nm, 1fv,n1, met 1.Ntr be hos ay.I
Mrs. Sparrow to daily with the string.
You could see he wanted the teaser to play
his pranks on the old lady, he would be
watching him and then would swoop down
and just thump the feathers off of that
sparrow. could see him chuckling at the
thought of the fun he would have.
The old lady started away with the
string, and she, too. was yanked back.
MIR. Sparrow was keeping an eye upon her,
and when he failed to see the mysterious
tormentor appear he was obviously very
much surprised. He got down and walk
ed all around the string and scratched his
head. Then he got mad and commenced
to Jaw at Mrs. Sparrow. 1t was awfully
natural. She protested that 1t was not her
fault; had he not himself been treated the
same way? Well, with that they both grab
bed hold Of the string and started on, but
with no better luck than before. Then the
sparrow flew at that string and commenced
to worry 1t. He pecked at it and tugged
at 1t and dragged 1t around while he got
red in the face and used more bad spar
row language, but he could not get away
with II.
Finally, Mrs. Sparrow, with female tact,
came to the rescue and said that after all
she did not believe that was a good string
for their business and they did not want
the thing, anyhow Mr.. Sparrow agreed
with her and said he believed at first the
blamed thing wasn't any good. but be
thought he would take 1t home for her to
see anyhow. And with that they flew
away it's my opinion there are lots big
ger fools in the world than sparrows."