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    The Tale of Old Mr. Crow
    The Tale of Old Mr. Crow
    The Tale of Old Mr. Crow
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    The Tale of Old Mr. Crow

    By Arthur Scott Bailey

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateOct 11, 2002
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      The Tale of Old Mr. Crow - Arthur Scott Bailey

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      Title: The Tale of Old Mr. Crow

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Release Date: December 21, 2004 [eBook #14402]

      Language: English

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF OLD MR. CROW***

      E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      Tuck-me-in Tales

      THE TALE OF OLD MR. CROW

      by

      ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

      Author of Sleepy-Time Tales

      1917

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER

      I THE OUTLAW

      II SOMETHING LOST

      III THE GIANT SCARECROW

      IV CAUGHT NAPPING

      V A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT

      VI MR. CROW IN TROUBLE

      VII MR. CROW'S BAD MEMORY

      VIII THE NEW UMBRELLA

      IX CAUGHT IN THE RAIN

      X A QUEER TOADSTOOL

      XI MR. CROW'S PLAN

      XII A RACE WITH THE TRAIN

      XIII THE GAME OF CHECKERS

      XIV THE LUCKY LAUGH

      XV MR. CROW'S NEW COAT

      XVI A TIGHT FIT

      XVII THE STRANGE BUTTONS

      XVIII AN UNLUCKY NUMBER

      XIX THE SHOE-STORE

      XX OLD SHOES FOR NEW

      XXI THE CROW CAUCUS

      XXII THE TEST

      XXIII THE WHITE FLAG

      I

      THE OUTLAW

      A good many of the forest-people claimed that old Mr. Crow was an outlaw. They said he was always roving about, robbing Farmer Green of his corn and his chickens, and digging up the potatoes when they shot their sprouts above the surface of the potato-patch. And everybody was aware that the old gentleman stole eggs from the nests of his smaller neighbors. It was even whispered that Mr. Crow had been known to devour baby robins.

      But perhaps some of the things said of him were not true. Though if he really was an outlaw he seemed to enjoy being one. He usually laughed whenever Johnnie Green or his father tried to catch him, or when they attempted to frighten him. And on the whole he was quite the boldest, noisiest, and most impertinent of all the creatures that lived in Pleasant Valley.

      His house stood in a tall elm, not too far from the cornfield. And those that dwelt near him never could complain that the neighborhood was quiet…. It was never quiet where old Mr. Crow was.

      Many of the smaller birds feared him. But they couldn't help laughing at him sometimes—he was so droll, with his solemn face, his sedate walk, and his comical gestures. As for his voice, it was loud and harsh. And those that heard too much of it often wished that he would use it less.

      Mr. Crow's best friends sometimes remarked that people did not understand him. They said that he helped Farmer Green more than he injured him, for he did a great deal in the way of eating beetles, cutworms and grasshoppers, as well as many other insects that tried to destroy Farmer Green's crops. So you see he had his good points, as well as his bad ones.

      For a number of years Mr. Crow had spent each summer in Pleasant Valley, under the shadow of Blue Mountain. He usually arrived from the South in March and left in October. And though many of his friends stayed in the North and braved the winter's cold and storms, old Mr. Crow was too fond of a good meal to risk going hungry after the snow lay deep upon the ground. At that season, such of his neighbors as remained behind often dined upon dried berries, which they found clinging to the trees and bushes. But so long as Mr. Crow could go where it was warmer, and find sea food along the shore, he would not listen to his friends' pleas that he spend the winter with them.

      Until I can no longer travel 'as the crow flies,' I shall not spend a winter here, he would say to them with a solemn wink. That was one of his favorite jokes. He had heard that when anybody asked Farmer Green how far it was to the village he always answered, It's nine miles as the crow flies—meaning that it was nine miles in a straight line.

      Old Mr. Crow thought that the saying was very funny. But then, he usually laughed at Farmer Green, no matter what he said or did.

      You can see that Mr. Crow was no respecter of persons.

      II

      SOMETHING LOST

      It may seem a strange thing for old Mr. Crow to have had no other name—such as John, or James, or Josephus. But that was the way he preferred it to be. Indeed, his parents had given him another name, years before. But Mr. Crow did not like it. And after he grew up he dropped the name. To tell the truth, the reason for his coming to Pleasant Valley, in the beginning, was because no one knew him there. And though his new friends thought it odd that he should be called simply Mr. Crow, he was satisfied.

      Of course, that was when he was younger. As the years passed he became known as

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