Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-08
AROUND THE CITY

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A man on the Avenue. near goth street.
caught the sound that some way, made
Itself heard above the clash OF traffic, and
looking upward. saw crow hopping around
on chimney top
While he craned his neck another man
stopped to inquire fraternally:
That "a pet of yours got away?"
Wnat In thunder do you suppose a farm
er wants with a crow. except to shoot him. -
was the equally fraternal answer.
I've been plagued to death all planting
time with the darn things watchin' my corn
nils from the fence rails an the first thing
L near when | come to town is this Internal
cawin'i What do'y suppose that rascal nm
yonder means by wastin' his time here
where there's no corn crop to rob?"
oh, We've got 10000 crows over in the
rookery near Arlington, and I've watched
their goings and comings for over fifty
years don't believe there's an old resi-
dent in the whole District who hasn't asso-
Citations connected with our crows: and YOU
could time clock by their movements
Every morning In the early gray they ny
down the Potomac to their feeding
grounds"
That's where they get me. darn emit
interrupted the farmer man
Live along the Eastern Shore7"
ca No o, stree. | belong TO Charles county,
You don't say, Why I've got rela-
tons all around that section. Know the
Blankses?"
Yes. Sir continued the city man. land
at dusk those crows came trailing home
IN long, black line high up in the sky
in clear weather and sailing low in storms
Oh you can't put me against crows friend
I've watched them too long"
Ihats how got my opinion-by watch
In EN-. The little rascals are so sharp
nowadays it's hard work gettin' pop at
EN-. and you can't brighten EN- with scare
crows any more
/ m afraid you making them blacker
than they are, laughed the city man.
ana the farmer man and the old resi-
oent who had relatives in Charles county
agreed upon a proposition advanced by one
OF them and walked off sociably together
In direct line with a green swinging door
woman who had been staring in a shoe
shop window stepped to the curb and look
ed up at the crow on the chimney top And
the crow saluted with its old familiar chal-
lenge.
1t had been raining all morning, but the
afternoon was Sunny and the sky cloud
less blue.
A little excursion party of two women
and flock Of children were eating their
luncheon from shoe boxes, and while tho
youngsters chatted and pecked like SPAR
rows In building time the mothers dis
cussed affairs
Yes. Just had to let Rachel go: she
was so careless about the children. must
say l miss her cooking and washing, but
She never took the baby to the park but
what was on pins and needles for fear OF
kidnapers. Ny Johnny says she would
get to cutting up with other nurses and
anybody could a-come along and walked
right OF with the go-cart. I got SO
couldn't rest when the baby was out Of my
sight, because If anything was to happen
to child of mine would go stark. staring
crazy. / just couldn't stand it!'
Me, too. Sometimes I'm sorry we
haven't got boy, but as tell Tom, can
always keep my eye on Edith. She Ism
strong. and the doctor says l can't be too
careful with her while she's growing 80
fast"
And the spinster who was meandering
by wondered why such admirable mothers
should be with their offspring sitting on
the wet grass.
why, / consider the winning of that
$50 one OF the greatest financial disasters
that ever overlook me. / was III when
the prizes were awarded, and before got
well about hundred people. more or less
had come to beg or borrow on the strength
on my luck Maybe I'm not as lucky as
look"
stop a minute, old man; want to look
at these pictures Excuse me. madam
And the man who had spoken took on
his hat to a woman he had fairly bumped
into as he entered the narrow passage at
the foot of steep stairway where q pho
tographer had displayed his exhibit.
81 don't know whether you've ever no.
ticed It," he continued. as the woman, a
tr!de red from embarrassment, scudded
out to the pavement, but / hardly ever
stop at one of these photograph places that
/ don't run into woman STOPPING over 10
tie her shoestrings