Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     The search for food is the crow’s chief business, although his love for glittering things causes him to wander from his ordered road when attracted by the gleam of some object at a distance. If this object of his curiosity can be transported, he takes it. The crow is easily tamed, but the process demands patience. Many crows talk as distinctly as parrots. Phiny the Elder notes a case where a crow alighted in the forum and saluted Emperor Tiberius and his two sons, “calling them by name.”