Jimmy Crow

By

Edith Francis Foster

Published by
Dana Estes & Co.

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DANA ESTES & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
Estes Press, Summer Street, Boston

IMMY CROW

By EDITH FRANCIS FOSTER

BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1899-1900
By S. E. Casino Company

Copyright, April, 1902
By Dana Estes & Company

All rights reserved

JIMMY CROW

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Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

HOW JACK FOUND JIMMY CROW.

I.

Jimmy Crow belongs to Jack. Jack is a little

. Jimmy is a big

. Jack wears a white

. Jimmy wears black

. Jack says "Good Morning," and "Yes, sir," and "Thank you." Jimmy can say only "Caw, caw." Jack thinks Jimmy is a funnier pet than a

or a

.

ne day, last summer, Jack was picking low

in the pasture, when he saw a young

hopping in the bushes. The little crow was lame in one

. He had fallen from the

. He was too young to fly far, so

caught him. He carried him home in his berry-

. Then Jack took a

and

and

and built a

. He named his new pet "Jimmy Crow."

ack took good care of Jimmy Crow. He caught

for him to eat, and gave him fresh water in a tin

. Jimmy's lame leg soon got well. His

grew big, and he could fly. When Jack called, Jimmy would fly to him and perch on his

or

.

immy Crow liked mischief. He liked to hide things and see people hunt for them. Once when Jack was getting ready for school, he could not find his

. He hunted till Mama said he must put on his rubber

and be off. One of those boots would not go on. There was something in the toe.

held it up and shook it, and out fell—the top!

flapped his

and cried "Caw, caw!" That was his way of laughing. Jack laughed too, as he took his

and

and hurried off.

THE CHRISTMAS CANDLES

II.

Grandma lives at Jack's

. She has a bird, too. Grandma's bird is a green

. The parrot's name is "Pepper."

loves

, but Jack's crow does not love Grandma's parrot.

epper can talk like a

, mew like a

, bark like a

. She can cry and laugh. When Jimmy says "Caw, caw!" Pepper says "C-a-w, c-a-w!" and then laughs.

doesn't like to be laughed at. Once he flew at Pepper, and pushed her off her

. But Pepper scratched him with her

and pulled out a tail-feather with her

. Now Jimmy keeps away from her, unless he wants to steal her

.

n Christmas Eve

came to Jack's Tree. Mama had trimmed it with

and

, and hung

everywhere. When she went with a

to light the candles, they were gone! "Where are the candles?" cried

. "Somebody has carried them off, and I can't light the

." Betty, the littlest girl, began to cry—two

ran down her cheeks.

sat on her perch cracking a

. When she heard the outcry, she dropped it and screamed "Jimmy Crow, Jimmy Crow! Oh, oh! Oh, oh!" "Oh, naughty

!" said Mama. "He has hidden them. Pepper is telling tales. Run,

, and hunt! We'll play a new game, 'Hunt the

.'"

ight pairs of

ran "up stairs, down

, in my lady's chamber." At last Betty tipped over a

, and out rolled the

. The littlest girl had won! So

held her up, and she lit the Christmas Tree.

AFTER THE SNOW STORM.

III.

Just after Christmas there was a great

storm. The drifts were higher than the

. When it cleared off,

put on

and reefer,

and rubber boots, and went out.

went with him. First, Jack took

and

and made a wide clean path to the

. This was "working for Mama." Jack likes to work for Papa and Mama.

hen

came to play with him, and they had a fine frolic. They rolled big

, and built a

. They put an old

on his head and the

over his shoulder. Then Jack rang the

, and Mama came to the door. "Here is a man with a shovel," he said. "Don't you want him to shovel paths for you?"

might," laughed

, "but somebody has been ahead of him—and here are four hot

for that smart somebody." Jack gave the other boys

, and they all sat down on the

to eat them.

sat on the

. He begged till each boy gave him a

.

hen they made a pile of

to throw at the snowman. Just as Bob threw one, Jimmy Crow lit on the shoulder of the

, and the

knocked him off into a deep drift!

was not hurt, but he was angry. He flew at

, and carried off his

in his

, and dropped it into that same deep

. Then

had to wade through snow over his

, to get his cap again. And Jimmy Crow perched on Jack's

, flapped his wings, and laughed "C-a-w, c-a-w, c-a-w!"

"THE ROSE IS RED"

IV.

Tomorrow is St Valentine's day," said

. "Whom can I send a

to, Mama?" "Who is the nicest little

you know?" asked

. Jack tried to think. "I guess it's the one in the big brick

," he said. "Her hair is curly, and she gave me an

when I climbed the

for her

. Her name is Kitty, too, and that's a pretty name."

o Mama took a sheet of

and painted

all around it, with two little

at the top; and Jack wrote a verse in the middle, with pictures—like this story. "Dear Kitty; The

is red, the

blue—I like

so I like you. Yours truly, J." Then he put it in an

and went out to send it.

went too.