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If you had wings, why of course you would wear feathers instead of clothes, and you might be a crow! And then of course you would steal corn, and run the risk of getting three of your big wing feathers shot away.
All winter long, and occasionally during this spring, I have seen one of my little band of crows flying about with a big hole in his wing, -- at least three of his large wing feathers gone, shot away probably last summer, -- which causes him to fly with a list or limp, like an automobile with a flattened tire, or a ship with a shifted ballast.