If there is a Robin's or Dove's nest at hand, they think it is foolish to look further, and help themselves to fresh eggs or squabs.

This makes us very angry, and we have the great Crow's nest--a peck or two of sticks, lined with the bark of cedars and grape vines--pulled from the tree-top where the crafty bird had hidden it.
[Illustration: American Crow.] "It is perfectly right to do so, from our point of view.

I, for one, do not wish Crows in my garden or about the Farm, where I see only the bad side of their characters.

So we chase them away, and put scarecrows in the corn-fields.

Do the Crows care?
Not a bit! They laugh and talk about us behind our backs, and before our faces too.