The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-16
HE WAS A MAD BIRD.
This Sparrow Thought Joke Was
Being Played Upon Him.
From the Washlngton star.

From the Washington Star.
You never saw such a mad sparrow in
your life as the ones saw to-day" said
Van TOpe. This sparrow was building a
nest and he flew down beside a goods box
on the pavement where he found what
he probably supposed was a beautiful,
straight piece of straw. 1t happened to
be a string. however, and the other end
of it was caught on nail in the box
But the sparrow wist not that it was
so, and he grabbed the end of the string
and started gayly away. OF course he
soon brought up with a round turn, as the
sailors say, and found the piece of string
jerked away from him. He lit on the
ground and looked around to see what
impudent and envious sparrow had tack
led 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 If dar-
ing the other fellow to knock a chip off his
shoulder, and the other fellow not showing
up, he grabbed his string and started off
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 tormeniEr he started off again
and again was thrown down.
sure some other sparrow was putting up
a game on him, and you could imagine
him saying that he did not 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 him
self on a limb just above the box and sent
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 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
Mr.. Sparrow was keeping an eye upon
her, and when he failed to see the myster-
ious tOrmentor appear he was obviously
very much surprised. He got down and
walked all around the string and scratch
ed his head Then he got mad and COM
menced to jaw at Mrs. Sparrow 1t was
awfully natural. She protested that ii was
mot her fault; had he not himself been
treated the same way? Well, with that
they both grabbed hold of the string and
started off, but with no better luck than
before. Then the sparrow flew at that
string and commenced to worry il. He
pecked at it and tugged at it and dragged
il around while he got red in the face, and
used more bad sparrow language, but he
could not get away with 1t.
Finally, Mrs. Sparrow, with female
tact. came to the rescue and said that after
all she did not believe that was a eooi
string for their business and they did not
want the string, anyhow. Mr.. Sparrow
agreed with her and said he believed at
first blamed thing wasn't any good, but
he thought he would take IL 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."