James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
“[A] carrion crow is a better bird than a mocking thresher. The one will, at least, remove foul sights from before the face of man, while the other is only good to brew disturbances in the woods, by cheating the ears of all that hear them.”
- From James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (chapter 12), originally published in 1826. The reprinted edition used here is from the De Luxe Editions Club / The Country Life Press (New York, 1950s?).
