Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     One of the most fantastic of birds is the laughing owl of Florida and some other southern parts. He sits well up in a tree at night and emits a series of loud, strange ha-ha’s that sound like half human laughter. The sound is sufficiently terrifying to a nervous camper unacquainted with the habit of the bird, though less grewsome than the unearthly call of the Chesapeake loon heard at all hours of the night along the shores of that bay.-New York Telegram.