"Are there any crows to scare away at the North Pole?
The gypsy had often seen the young Prince pass by, with his gun on his shoulder, when he was going after crows.
"No," answered Santa Claus, "but I don't want you to scare away crows. I want you to scare away Arctic Explorers.
"The old woman has a very queer cock, I know, that always roosts on the top of her bed, and crows like no cock I ever heard crow.
Bibbs retained enough presence of mind to transfer the capon breast to his plate without dropping it and to respond, "Yes--he crows over it."
But the next summer there was no need of a scarecrow, for not a crow came past the fence-post on which Santa Claus had written his notice to crows.
At that point, as I now remember, the air was full of vultures (carrion crows), a hundred or more, soaring over the fields in some fit of gregariousness.
I can keep you in work for a thousand years, and scaring away Arctic Explorers from the North Pole is much more important than scaring away crows from corn.
The harrier was sitting on her newly-hatched young, and the pair of crows were feeding theirs for the last time; it was the time of the owls--and the nightingales.