At 05:38 PM 7/19/98 -0700, Charles Evans wrote:
>Aldo Leopold's description of a barred owl's call in a corn belt wood-lot;
>"a distant barred owl hilarious over his own joke".

More like maniacal laughter, IMHO! "Put that owl in a straightjacket
and hand him over to Nurse Ratchet!"


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