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!

OWLS in the spiritual world are correspondences and consequent appearances of the thoughts of confirmators, 233. PAGANS, the, who acknowledge a God and live according to the civil laws of justice, are saved, 351.