. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. XII PIGEONS The wild pigeon is noted for its very bad nests. Legend says that, finding it impossible to make a good one, and seeing the skill with which the magpie made hers, he asked her to be so good as to give him lessons. The mag- pie consented to this on condition that the I. In Past and Present Times Though the pii^con comes at the end of this work, and consec|uently after many other of our domestic animals, both quadrupeds and bipeds, it i
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. XII PIGEONS The wild pigeon is noted for its very bad nests. Legend says that, finding it impossible to make a good one, and seeing the skill with which the magpie made hers, he asked her to be so good as to give him lessons. The mag- pie consented to this on condition that the I. In Past and Present Times Though the pii^con comes at the end of this work, and consec|uently after many other of our domestic animals, both quadrupeds and bipeds, it is not because it is less worthy of esteem. Unlike the gallinaceous tribes, the pigeon, by its docility and its readiness to pigeon should give her a cow. The pigeon approach man, is a better domestic animal in agreed ; but after watching the magpie a few the literal sense of the word than most of our moments he said he had learned enough, and other feathered friends. Yet the pigeon has a refused to keep his promise. A judge was sum- cjuality that enables him, whenever ^ moned, and having decided that the pigeon had no right to receive further instruction, the latter \ has, ever since, made shock- *K ingly bad nests. Tame pigeons, so frequent in Greece since the end of the fifth century before Christ, were long before that held sacred in the countries of Asia. They were kept in great flocks round the temples of Aphro- , and in Syria no one dared lands on them. They first came to Europe through Italy, where great numbers of white and colored doves were kept around the temple of he chooses, to break off instantly and with far more ease than our other domestic birds, the ties of friendship that unite him to house and family He can fly with a rapidity and to a distance unat- tainable by man — so long as the science of bal- looning is in its infancy It is difficult to say when the pigeon was first know n as a domestic animal. We know certain that he was such in \ toric times, so th
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