CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN.
An Amorican tourist was boasting in tho , inn of an English village. "Talking .of scarecrows," he said, with a drawl, "why, my father once put one up that frightened the crows so much that not one entered the field again for a year!" Ho looked triumphantly around his audience. Surely that had settled those country, bumpkias! "That's nothing •" remarked ons farmer.' "A neighbour o' mine once put a scarecrow into hi 3 potato patch and it terrified the birds so muoh. that one- rascal of a crow who had stolen some potatoes ca.rne the next day and put them back I"
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 11
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102CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN. Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 11
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