Subject: Caw! Crooked Crow Cons Cashpoint Card Client (fwd)
Date: Jan 26 12:32:59 2001
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


To Smiths/Tweeters:

I too was more reminded of the wily Jackdaw when the narrative started.
I've heard several similar accounts over in Russia...

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens

email: scottratkinson at hotmail.com


>From: "Bill or Sue Smith" <birdsmiths at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Bill or Sue Smith" <birdsmiths at hotmail.com>
>To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>, "BIRDCHAT"
><birdchat at listserv.arizona.edu>
>CC: "Ian Paulsen" <ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>
>Subject: Re: Caw! Crooked Crow Cons Cashpoint Card Client (fwd)
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:03:06 -0800
>
>Folks,
>
> Apparently a few people on both sides of the Pond were taken in by
>this
>'urban legend', which probably dates to an 1837 poem by Richard Harris
>Barham (1788-1845) called "The Jackdaw of Rheims". When my wife (who is
>English) was a girl, Jackdaw-theft was a commonly-used excuse for missing
>valuables, based on the theme of this poem.
>
> The poem itself IMHO is positively delightful. The full 162-line text
>can be read at:
>
>http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/barham1b.html
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Bill
>-----------------
>The Smiths
>Grays Harbor, Washington USA
>birdsmiths at hotmail.com
>
>
>
>
>

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