The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
Tale Of the Talking Crow and His Death
He Was Wise Bird and Keen Observer of important Events
but He Meets Tragic End

both their necks if they come back to
their roost that night and, he went to
the barn to do up his chores, SO mad
that he couldn't hardly wait till night
come. When he got back to the house
there the crows was, struttin' about the
yard. and Richard hollered out, as
pleasant as could be-
Hello, pop!. ips3 sete
TIL hello pop, you'll" says Uncle Da-
that 1 guess he'd a got his gun and
finished the crows without waitin' for
night If he hadn't met Aunt Sally.
lcokin' all tickled to pieces.
What do you think, David?' says
she. Them crows must a brung the
city gals watch back, for she found it
minute ago on her bureau, jest where
they took 1t FRONT,
And sure as green apple grimes. so they
had! wal Uncle David didn't make Way
with them crows that night nor he didn't
d fhake o way, with EN- at al. fur from that
richard, SO we thought, had talked to that
mate of hisn, fur he see plain enough how
tthha INN was Is, heaain and they brought back
InaI Watch and reformed on the minute
Klchard's mate. though, had an idea that
It could lick anything that crawIed. ran or
new, and one day he tackled new game
ttooster tnat uncle David had brought
nome, and In less than three rounds Rich
ara was left to run the crow end of that
farm alone.
"A year ago Uncle David's boy Pete got
married and moved On to a farm a mile
and half from the homestead. Richard
was fond of Pete, and he went alone To
i've with him on the new place. He come
I nIac usdT the every mornin back to the old
greeted Uncle David with his familiar
Good mornin', popH He gen ally STAYED
an az nour or SO, lookin' things over to see
II tney was runnin. all right, and then
would go back home
one day last week Richard appeared
a as oncie 9avid's good deal earlier than
down in his tracks by hollerin' out:
Good mornin', gran'popl'
Richard chuckled and croaked and
ever every little while would holler out, with
N gran pop! Gran'popl Granp opP maxim,
Uncle David most bust a-laughin' after ne
got over his fust knockout and wonder
where in tarnation the consumed crow
picked that up. An hour or so after Rich.
ara got to Uncle David's up come yoIIns
Pete; Iookin' pleased all over
-. an VEL pop, says he, there's three of
see. the third one is. and everybody dom
And now to think that Richard is dead
die! Since he went down on Pete's farm
he took to helpin' drive the COWS to pas-
tur nippnn' their heels like fire when
ohey didnt step to suit him. There was
fore yesterday when Richard was tendin,
TO things at Uncle Davids, young Pete
ssNW utp ped, the brindle off fur another one
mat looked just like her, only the new
one nag little more snap to her. Rich
ard didn't know anything about the dick
er, and when he went home and fond
the tn brindle COW in the cow yard instead Of
the pastur', where he 'sposed he had drove
her In the morning. he pitched in to nip
her heels and take her there But the
new 6rlndle wasn't used to such doin's.
and she shot out one hind foot and sot II
ag IN Richard SO heavy that he never
breathed agin. -
was him. You've heard about him. and
now if you don't say that the load of sor-
row that is weighin the Beckendarter
family down heavier'n a ton of lead has
a right to be weightin' 'em down, ri have
70 size you up as bein' stony hearted and
as scarce of the milk of human Kindness
as sidehill plow will soi''
NO one seemed to object to being thus
Sized up. for nothing was said; but the
Fochuck man went away apparently much
cheered up.