THE 0R2G0N SUNDAY- JOURNAU FORTLAND, SUNDAY MOKTfiNG, , 'AUGUST, 18, 1807. i : r. ,1,- , , REMINISCENCES OEfMNA TU RE FAKER 'i Voftn Kendrkk Pangs Writes on Hawks and Hawks - - ; ':.','''.'' ' " 1 Copyright, HOT. bjr Joseph B. Bowles. KINO O' think." 81 Wotherspoon was saying 'as J Joined the com pany at the postoffloe the other night; "that all Mrda 1 highway robbers, whether they be the hu man kind that we eaUa Jail birds or Jest plain crows like that feller Jim, the . Captain was tellln' us about s little while back. Theyll all steal If ye give - 'em a chance.". , , "That an depends on the way ye . look at it. Si," said the Captain: "The way I measure a thief is whether he steals Jest for the fun o' deprlvln' some. . body else o' what he's got or does It because he needs what he takes In bis business. A feller like, that- crow o' mine that runs off with a lady's powder ' puff that ain't nateraly any use to him, ' an 'does It out C pure cussedness Is a thief. . There ain't anything he can do vM a powder puff, because powder puffs ain't good eattn'. He don't tak It because he thinks maybe he'll be ast to a bird ball somewhere, an' wants to make people admire bis beautiful com . plexion.- If be stole a blackln' brush ye mlcht credit him with a desire to keen ' hie feathers polished up, an' ' hlsself lookln' like a first-class self-respectln' crow.-iut wnen ne gets down to I winder an' ewioes a bottle o tooth , wash off the . barer ye know ' derned well that he's nothin' but a low down - ordinary second-story, bird without - no conscience, an' filled with a msd de sire to annex other people's property," "WelL now. s'pose rs take 'em pig' . eons o' Joe's, said- 81. ""I sowed my back lot with oats three weeks ago, an' I hadn't more'n got 'em on the ground - when them derned critters come flop pin' acrost in' roaa, an' sot down mere, an' eat up every blamed -oat4 I'd put out . D ye call that stealln' or Jest nateral enterpriser' -y s . .Pigeons Fond of Oats. -: r. ' 'It's enterprise," said .the Captain. " "Nature ha provided them pigeons with . a taste for oats, an' when they see you , sort o settin the table for 'em to coma over an have a. snack o lunch,-they come, an' they take what's set before 'era without grumblin', an' with no more liaee in their minds tnat tney ain t doin' what you exoected 'em to do than if ye'd 5ut it on a plate an' took It to 'em. low if Joe hiaself . had com over, an' swep' those oats. up into a. bag, an' took 'em to tits yard an' red 'em to his pig ... : eons, . that. rd ha' been -StealinV because joe Knows oetter, even u n is a tM rai officeholder." t.'X see," said 81. "but I think he owes me a peck of oats Jest th' same, an' I . gorry. If them pigeons shows their peaky bills on my lot agln I'll I'll " ? ,;. "You'll receipt 'em, ehT laughed the Captain. I'll, blow -their derned -nead: off," said 81, with considerable heat. V "That'll DP Jest right," observed the postmaster, quietly. Tve told them figeons to keep off your place, an" if hey don't do as I tell 'em to, shoot 'em 61. I'll sell y the gunpowder to do it . wun. . ... -.,v.i' - 'Ton win, anyhow, seems to me," said . 81, sulkily. "What ye'd ought to do is to iook aiier your pigeons yourselt'an' : make 'em stay home." ' "That's right too." said the imper turbable postmaster. - "I'd ought to write to the postmaster-general an' tell . mm mat me tuiairs oi ine administra tion in this town '11 have to go to pot because I've got to- spend my time shoo- In' pigeons off your half-acre oat patch. j. u y rigin now tneys more money in keepin' an eye on the American eagle limn mere la in loosin- arter a rew dozen jwhi aqua oa. tur. eiia wotfter spoon. " 8j'Then I ain't got no redress,'' said , "Yei y have, an ye get It every day ye kejen hens," retorted the postmaster. The oats my pigeons has eat In your yard ain't wuth half the peas an beana your rooster chews up In my truck gar Ae.JTT momin' of his life but I'm wlllln' to call it square. This life ain't much more 'n a sort or mutual forbear ance s'clety anyhow." , "H drops a flva poundtr. mark before," said th Captain calmly, "If Intelligence was In demand in run-nin'-th' affairs o'-this nation there's a hull lot more plowln' 'd be done by fourth-class postmasters all over the land, an' specially In this here state. But they! allers one good thing about you postofflce fellers. Te can always be teaohed suthln' ye never heard on before, an' some real 18 ksrat Information in regard to hawks Is comln' to ye now." 'Go ahead," said Joe. 'Tm wlllln' to learn, I her a thirst for information." Swiped Poultry. "Anybody could, tell that by the way ys read all th postal cards that passes through this her postofflce," retorted the captain. "I callate there ain't none o' 'em escapes that eagle eye o' yourn. I've had two different experiences with hawks in my day. an' theVve teached me the truth o what I says, that they's honest hawks an' dishonest hawks. The his trad o' swtpin' poultry up back, o' I Knows One Honest Hawk. rortiana wnen i uvea up mere. Me an' mother was young then, an' we spent most of our time raisin' chickens. It was a profitable business in them days. The boardln' house keeoers alons the Main coast hadn't discovered then that packln' at th door an' on openln' It there on th sill we found Jest about the slickest lookln' Spanish inack'rel y ever sot your two eyes on. He was a perfect beauty an' so fresh that, he was still drlppln water an' floppln' his tall, showin' that he'd only Jest been caurnt. ia naraiy picked him ud from the doodstep when a terrific squakln' a own in tne cnicken vara snowed tnat MfHawk was jroin' keerfully over my poultry stoca use a nrst-ciass nouse keper doln' her marketln', an' blraeby we se him flyln' off through the air wun anotner puiiei in nis claws. -'-. -went .that way all summer lonr. Every time he took a bird he brought a fish, an' when the season was over, an' mother an' me come to ngger It out. It wasn't ten cents one wav or th1 other whether him or us had th best o th bargain. As I remembered It, he'd took f 27.68 wuth o' poultry an' had left us 127.75 wuth o' fish, so that really w was seven cents ahead of the gam.' , -v "Which Of course ye held In trust for him agin another year," said the post master 'y '." ; ;, ' ; ; "Not accordin t due process o the Thejr's Hawks and Hawks. And thus was a trues declared. "Birds has got to live," said th Cap ' tain after good-fellowship had been re stored in a dlpperful of root beer all around, "an' while It makes me madder n ii hornet sometimea th way they have of swoopln doWn on a day's work an' PPllin' it I'm blamed if I can Warn 'em. The bird ketches the grain, the farmer ketches the bird., an' 'thetax asseaw ketcnes th farmer, an the grand Jury ketches th tax , assessors, an' so it g'Oe." -l ' V--.,:v ... 'Then y wouldn't shoot hawk that come down on' took a couple o your l r-t 5iring pullets, ehT' said th post- -n f II,. they's hawks an' hawks,' said 1 e t ri'tain. "Theys honest hawks, an t,'i.v-'B Ai.slionest hawks. Just lik they's hont nu n, an" men that s crooked.' . vt nawici a new. on on me," i etmaster with ; a dubious j- I cmld ketch one o' them i i .; itin' the country an' open -An v. the 1 J me i a ciii'in." cXten ha.il occasion to r- ye can maae cnicsen saiaa out v veai, law, repuea ; tne captain. I never SSSJTA drawsd up a regular morglgde on my lettlna hen set between th sun an' a P1c,,n hl" favor for that amount, but pot o blUn' water, so's hr shadder will f right- now, if he ever comes flavor the ensooin' soud. Folks bousht P4?" n MH tT that T cents. I gorry. Chickens enough to make it wuth while P,1.1 Kiv u to, 5lm .wBut.tu,at. ln 1 h to raise 'em, an mother n me made a P ,nt Tn? P ln th tn? r h pretty fair Uvln' out of 'era. Well, of oeen. one noneat nawx in tne-wono, an' cous like everybody else, w suffered ybe that-if theys one like .a a 1,1107 m ss, gus, uiui W WW OI11JT IlSlVrj the luck to find 'em." - "I never knew a chicken hawk to ana near tne water Deiore, said 01 wotner "Me neitner," agreed the captain. "I guess maybe this feller was a cross breed O' chicken an' fish' hawk: Whlla he paid his bills res'lar. an' alwava tn advance I never got close enough to him to ask him about his father and mother." . "It's a city." said th noatmaster. "If ve could onlv a-et an afterrinw showin' that his father an' mother waa o' different families the storvM have a better chance when th president hears about It" 'That experience srot ma Interested in nawxa,' said tne captain, "an ex plains how I come to find the crooked est hawk In the business the next sum. mer. Of course, after meetin' with th first feller I kind o welcomed 'em when they come the year after, I didn't want to snoot to snoot 'em for rear o' killin' a rood customer, so for a little while I gave them a free hand on my place, an' set around makin' notes o their habits. ' Well, one mornln' in June the followin' year up comes a tremendous Dis; ieiier. an' oesina to taks tne usual blrd'eye view o the chicken yard, and then. I gorry, he swoops down an' grabs a settin' hen ; right off her nest, and flies away with hec I follered the cuss an discovered where he lived, un on a bis rock back o' Pete Nichols' wnnrin. I was so derned interested In the species tnat it sort o- las'nstea me to watch him. He eat ud the old mother hen. and then flew off to the westward some piace. an 1 went oacit noma. . Next mornln" orignt anr early I was waked up by an awful cacklin' goln' on down there In the chicken yard, an', I gorry, what d' ye suppose I found when I faroi down mere T" "Kidnaper, kldnaperl some from hawks, an' one big feller o tio iariy rot. away wun a numher o' nice Juicy spring pullets I set a lot o' store on. He'd come along Jest before night, ' once a week, most generally on Thursday.- afternoon, as I remember it; swoop down on the hen yard, seize the rattest-iookin' . teller he could nnd an' go soarln' off in th air with him. As I says I got pretty mad about it. an' be In' young I swore some, an' finally I made un my mind Mr. Hawk 'd have to aie. co 1 got out my snotgun an' nnea This One Pirate. "A check for $4 to pay for then," put her good an' full with powder an' nails in the postmaster. I didn't happen to have no shpt handy "No, slrree!" ejaculated the captain, an' set down an waltea. I waited I ri.. , nhi. A Ik... a hull week an' then he com along, but, .7 . waf 1 nothin' -so honest about gorry, jest s 1 was-arawm a line on 1 mw. ne wu a pirate, ne Mm, he drops a five-pound codfish right I was. He'd' com bark for thm rrm tha atop o' me, so that when I pulled the I old hen had been settin' on, an' by the trigger my aim went xina o wiia an' 1 time Id sot mv elo'es on an' mnt 1nwn didn't bit nothin' but the codfish." ; I to the yard he'd sot his clawa on th nest an' was speedln' off home with 'em. an ne never sollleri an -r. . T follered htm again, an' when I rot ud to where his nest was I climbed a tree, so's I could look down Into it an' see what he was doin. an', by gum, sir. he was settin' on them eggs hlsself. Yes, sir. Jest like an old mother hen. an' ha set Cher till he'd hatched theft all out. "Where'd he sret the 1. codflshr de- manaea hi wotnerspoon. Also Caught Fishes. " "Out h' the sea, of course." said the Captain. "H was a fish-hawk as well a chicken-hawk. It never : occurred to me at the time that the feller had Ian as fast as them baby chlckens'd pop. any other object vin droppln that ther I gut '.tJ11elp h1f1lltWfc,at,.'B?' W"B oacK an- triea tne game ail over again, but I .was too smart for him. I put a 1 o cnuir eggs in tne next nest, an', I tell ye I had a good laff when I see him soarln' away with them." wnat oecom or mm finally r' asked nsh on to me than to spile my aim, so next time he come along I was on the lookout agin that trick, but this time he swooped rtghtdown In front of the Kitchen door an' laid a bustin big shad on tne aoor step, as put as you piease, I didn't dast fir at him ther for fear o' hittln' mother., Of course she hol lered an' I run up to the house as tlghfi s 1 couia go an- wnue 1 was aoin' tnat Mr. Hawk flies over to tha chicken vara, an' nelpa hlsseir to his dinner. That night after we'd eat the shad for upper mother remarked that It-was sort of impressln' Itself upon her mind " mat inr Dira wanted to do the Squar thlnr hr 11 a n wo a Inrln' tn Py for, the chickens he took in fish an bem as l was thinkln very tnuch th sarae thintr myself I didn't se no cause to dispute it, an' we decided-not to shoot him the next time he came round, but lest ta II ln an1 -1X711 sir. sure enouarh th ... uu -u. sundown Thursday aight. we fasard a Si Wothersooon. T ve kill himr T didn't need to,"" said the captain. "The pesky old cuss died o starvation waitur for them chiny eggs to hatch.'1 c At this point th mail came in and the - sostmaster'S business caused tha adjournment of the meeting. r'Well." he said, as he unlocked the baff.'lf them stories . ta trna va'va groved.your p'in They Is hawks an awks!.'',S':;"--.rt:,'"s'- - "You bet tney oe- said thV captain. 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