Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 574
when we heard 1921] THE SKY PIRATE 967 the cawing of a passing flock of crows, and myfriend hid with me under some drooping boughsand suddenly gave a sepulchral hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo,hoo, so deep that it seemed to come from un-der ground—the sinister, hollow note of the great through the tops of the… … A GREAT HORNED OWL WITH A DEAD CROW IN HIS TALONSThe great horned owl is about the only thing that a crow fears, and him only in the dark horned owl. I nstantly there was a chorus of cawsin the sky, and in a minute an advance-guard ofcrows came dashing through the woods. Oncemore he gave the call,…
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