Arizona republican., 1908-06-01

Even in hte-fying they fix little hooks
 to their kte-strings and try to pull in each others kites and it fair to keep any kite that drops into their yards. They will tell you that kite or strange pigeon that comes to your place. if given up takes away your family luck" So you must tear the kite and keep the pigeon. But when you see the town dandes sauntering out with their fans and bird-cages to watch the noon kite-Aying cricising the 1Ocks and their tactics. and arguing the fine points of decoying you guess that family luck has very little to do with their game
 To decoy strange pigeons pigeon-keepers must first train their focks to fly in spirals'-that is to rise steadily in circles without sraying far from the home roof Pigeons naturally fly together in circles Even wild pigeons wheel about in focks before strag gling of to the fields. Chinese make their birds eager for circling by keeping them shut up in a wicker house built the ground around the dove cote; and they their birds of struggling by pelt- ing them with pebbles when they try to alight any where except on one spot-the rdge-poe of the roof facing their wicker house. The flock must aight here in a bunch, and immediately walk down to the caves. This is done to bring any strange pigeon among them down within sight of the grain which is then scattered on the floor of the wicker house PigeoRs fed oaig after flying for unless hungry they are lay dhd unnanageabie.
 In Peking focks are sent up at sunrise at noon and just before sundown. Neghboring 1ocks always join and their keepers then try each draw apart his flock with call-birds, to bring with it any unwary pigeons from the other focks. If stranger is brought tothe roof the keeper coaxes down with his own birds by throwing millet into the wicker cage
 No one ever demands back pigeon lost in this way. Two friends will sometimes play live pigeon" that is, give back each others birds that may be captured from the flock during the game; but the rule is to play dead pigeon" or as boys say, flor keeps" A .
 THE CAPTURE AND RECAPTURE OF "NU WHA
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 Every morning when the crows were all back from the cemetery pines and the rose upon the polished bIue-black city walls, Little American" had watched small clouds of white-winged pigeons circIing high overhead-so high, sometimes, that he would not have found them but for the faint singing the reed whistles at their tails
 Mu Wha You was one of Little Americans first ten pigeons. They were all tientses-white with black tails, and each with black spot like watermelon seed its forehead. On all of them, as high-bred pigeons must have it, the white and black met in regular lines (without a struggling black feather among the white white among the black, ex- -cept Mu Wha You, whose name meaning She Specklehead," given her for rings of black on her neck. These rings, which grew out myste- Tiously weeks after Little American had bought her. very much cheapened her in the eyes of Ii Loo the old gatekeeper who had charge of the flock and who taggnt Little American the secrets of pigeon keeping But the rings caused no loss of caste with the other pigeons or with Little American, and he was sorely grieved when on her very first flight she was decoyed into captivity by his sly old neigh bor Kao Chun