St. Nicholas (serial) (1873) (14597435737)

Identifier: stnicholasserial301dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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water-baths he now took snow-baths. He would skim along over the snow, justbrushing it with his wings, then take a plunge,wallowing in it as though he were in his accus-tomed water-bath under the pine-tree. Muchof his time on stormy days was spent in thebarn with the men. Often he would be seensitting on Coalys back, warming his feet. Heliked to come into the house whenever the nutswhich he had helped me gather were beingcracked. The sound of the hammer alwaysseemed to reach his ears, and brought him tap-ping at the window for admittance. When hehad been fed with nuts until he was satisfied, hebegan to hide them about in the funniest places,slyly tucking one away under a cushion, an-other between the papers on the table or underthe rug on the floor. The next time he cameinto the house he would begin hunting for hishidden morsels, and caw in great glee if hefound them. When the time came for him to go to roosthe would watch his chance to fly out at the door : GRIP, THE TALKING CROW. 65
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AND THE SCI1. IOI. CHILDREN. and hie away to his pine-tree. One stormynight I nailed a perch high up in one corner ofthe woodshed. I then called Grip to myshoulder, from which he readily flew to theperch. After that he came every night at duskto be put to bed in the same way. He sleptthere through the cold winter nights, well shel-tered from the storms. March came, and Grip was often seen circlingaround overhead with a flock of crows that fre- Vol. XXX.—9-10 quented the place. I wondered if he would notselect a mate and set up housekeeping in hispine-tree, and rear a family of talking crows.He was becoming more fluent in our language,every now and then adding a new word to hisvocabulary, until it consisted of the following : Go way, Grip, go way, Come here, Grip ;come, Grippy, come, All right, Hurry up, Cope, Coaly, cope, Coaly, cope, cope, Hur-rah, and other words that were not quite plain 66 GRIP, THE TALKING CROW. (Nov.