Domesticating Owls

With the íiid of a companion I secured a number of owls and bore them to the upper story of the granary, a large room where tliey could fly about at nitcht, were s'iielded frcm the rigors of winter, and could supply tbeir larder from the numerous mice that infested the place for the catching. Being strangers to the place, and fearing they woüld not get enough to eat at first, I carried them pieees of fresh meat and fowl, whicfa promptly disappeared after dark. Mice may have eaten them, but in tlie end the owls were not the losers, I take it. Theysoon lost theirfear of us, when approached by by day, a ui seemed to accept the situation as not so bad after all. Siting silent and grave on the beams overhead, they passed the days iu sleep and meditation. When approai-lied at night with a light they ide-awake and alert in their inov.einenis. Thoy were liberated in spring, and a door left oppn that they might return :n their will, ivhich they often (lid ; (inving becoine in a nianner domeaticatetl, they flew about the lawn at night with little sense of fear. - Harper'w MaBzine.