Excerpt from Wonderful Animals: Working, Domestic, and Wild; Their Structure, Habits, Homes, and Uses Plumage of Birds very Suggestive - Rooks and rookeries -rook Parlia ment - How Lazy Rooks are Punished - Forethought of Rooks - Notice to Quit - The Gun and the Crutch - The Lawyer's Rookery - Sympathy among Rooks - Ravens of the Bible - Domestic Ravens - Their Cry an Evil Omen - Cling to their E gs - Familiar Raven - T he Raven Rat catcher - Raven and Glove bree Funny Ravens - Mrs. Grimalkin Tongue-tied - Dickens' Ravens - Crows of Ceylon - The Dog and his Bone - Ah unlocked-for Exposure - Crows the Blessing of God - Jack daws - Conservative Jackdaws - carte-de-visite - The jackdaw's F ail ings - Drunken Jackdaw - jack and the Ostler's Son - Plea for our Birds in Black' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.