The Little Louvre; Or, the Boys' and Girl's Gallery of Pictures

Download or read book The Little Louvre; Or, the Boys' and Girl's Gallery of Pictures written by Jacob Abbott and published by Ramsay Press. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...to talk a little with a girl who is passing near him on her way across the field. Rooks, like crows and ravens, are celebrated for their dishonesty. They steal any thing that they can find, apparently without the least remorse or compunction. When a young pair are Picture of the rookery. Hoiy the rooks build their nests. building their nests, instead of going away to a proper place, and finding sticks and straws of their own to build it with, they watch slyly for an opportunity, and pull out the sticks from the other nests near them when the owners of them are away. They use a great many sticks in building their nests, cementing them together with mud, and weaving in straw to form the inside lining; Punishment inflicted on detected thieves but instead of going to get sticks and straws of their own, they are very apt to plunder their neighbors whenever they get a chance. To prevent this danger, one of the rooks of the pair that own a nest usually remains by it to guard it while the other is away, and then, if any strange rook comes to steal the sticks or straws, he flies at him and drives him off. Sometimes, however, the thieving rook, by constantly watching, finds some nest unguarded, and succeeds in robbing it. But he does not always escape punishment for his crime, for when the owners of the nest come home and find what the thief has been doing, they go and get several other rooks to join them, and the whole company fly at the thief in his nest, drive him away, and pull his nest to pieces. Whether these avengers of crime are regular officers of justice, appointed as a sort of police to execute an established code, or whether they are volunteers, applying a sort of Lynch law to the offenders, I believe is not fully ascertained. The rooks do some mischief t...