The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-07-10

time. When you wantH to do sOme-
thing you must show 1t. When you
tell a child for the first time tn shake
hands it don't understand. You must
take its hands in yours ut the same
time you tell il to shake hands. | fed
my crow for six weeks before it was
able to cat by itself. Then let 1t
hop around the shop here. Its fav0rite
place was on that peg cutter there.
The little fellow would sit up there
and watch me pound away at shoes all
day long. The tlrst word thatsI taught
it was "hell0."
This is the simplest word, and II a
crow can say hello, it can say almost
any other word. ldidn't say anything
else to it for three days. The bird sat
there and watched my mouth with a
curious interest. It. would cock its
head on one side and blink its eyes as
wise rs an owl. Every once and Il
while it would 20 into queer contor-
tions. Suddenly it let out the word
"hcllo." This seemed to please it.
The bird flopped its wings and Hoped
about the place in the greatest glee,
calling hello in Il perfect torrent.
After that taught it say 'goOd-by.'
Then l taught it its name, and when
any one would ask it who it was the
bird would answer with an amusing
gravity, 1 am good crow quite
plainly.
"That crow was wonder. lie was
"A finer one than grandfathcr's crow,
which wAs handed down three genera
tions in the old country. Whenever
the fire bells rang, Yawcob would yell
fire, fire, fire. as II his life depended
on it. Yawcob pridcd himself on being
able to bark like Il dog. This made
him a good watch crow. II he found
a stranger in the yard he at once set
up Il loud barking which always warn
cd me. When hc sat on the counter
there he never allowed any one to
handle my tools. lie showed his dis
approval by hopping on their hands
and pccking them viciousH. Yawcob
was not like other crows. Other crows
talked only when they felt like it.
Yawcob talked when occasion required
it. When Il customer left the shop,
and | asked Yawcob what lie said, he
} very politely tapped his wings as II
to make Il courtesy and called out,
d. "good-by." ! lkepthim in a cage over
night, and set the cage 50 he could not
: sec the door open when l entered the
= shop in the morning. lie always greet.
ed me with hello and at once de-
: mandcd to be let out OF the cage.
"IIe and Tom, the big yellow cat
lying there, were very good friends
= While Tom walked about the shoI
= purring, rubbing, against customers
legs. Yawcob would stand by my sid'
talking to himself at great rate
!, Yawcob often pcrched himself upOI
= Toms back while Tom was walking
" about, to which Tom made no sort o
' objection. But Yawcob would no
y tolerate Tom near his meals. YO
know YawcOb believed in laying some
;, thing by for rainy day. When Il
u got more meat than he could cat h
y very wisely carried it out into the bac
W yard and placed it in Il convenier
, hole. He covered the hole with
;" " piece Of paper and then flew up to IL
~ ridge OF the house to stand guard Ov'
his treasure. As sure as Tom bega
d to smell about the yard YawcOb wou
fly down and attack Toms tail unit
~ " the cat was only too glad to beat r
" treat.
'r. .
., "Crows live a hundred years. II son
20 accident doesn't happen to them.
- was unfortunate when l placed IL
i. mison last Sunday for the rOachc
~ Yawcob got some OF it about 4 oclocl
IN When he began to fall sick he came
Vi me ut once and hoped into my han
~ and refused to leave me. l gave hi
a milk and oil, but it did him no goo'
~ Toward 8 o'clock Yawc0b SCENE
= worse, so carried him to the Gag
~ lie clutched my finger and sat thcl
rr until he died"