17 APRIL 1926, Page 16

A RAVEN AND A BOY

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My brother-in-law in Devonshire has a raven, brought up from a nestling, and now some years old. It flies about loose in the garden. The following extract from a letter is interesting : " The raven is quite besotted on R. (a boy just come home from his first term at a Public School), knew him again at once, and follows him everywhere, going to call him in the morning. They built a nest in the cypress tree together, R banding the sticks, and the raven building the nest. It is really most extraordinary."—I am, Sir, &c., J. S. Winthusli. Terrington Rectory, York.