But Chris'mas scooped the Sheriff, The egg-nogs gethered him in; And Shelby's boy Leviticus Was, New Year's, tight as sin; And along in March the Golyers Got so drunk that a fresh-biled owl Would 'a' looked 'long-side o' them two young men, Like a sober temperance fowl.

"The Owl is, in truth, a most dangerous man," replied the hunter.

From any dictionary you may ascertain that an owl is a nocturnal, carnivorous bird, of a short, stout form, with downy feathers and a large head; and if that does not satisfy you, there is no lack of books which will furnish fuller and more precise descriptions.

We didn't stay long, for the Owl was a savage big thing, nearly two feet high, with yellow eyes and long feathers sticking up on its head like horns.

Now the owl down in the country is such a solemn creature.

"Trained owls would be the most valuable scouts we could have," said the young officer.

The owl was a general, and he rushed up to Jackson in the crisis of the first battle of Bull's Run, crying "All is lost!

The big-eyed owl a-settin' on a limb With nary a wink nur nod, The big-eyed owl a-settin' on a limb, Is a-singin' a sort of a solemn hymn Of "Hoo! hoo-ah!" at God.

And the Owl Was a funny old Fowl

Brown owls are the ones that hoot; they do not screech.

Screech-Owl was her tool.

THE OLD HORNED-OWL As soon as the Cock has crowed all becomes temporary provisional THE BARN-OWL Though the Night be still black, we are painfully aware of it growing less and less black!