JAMES WILSON wrote:

>    "He worked as a mechanic in Stockton and hadn't picked them 
> [mushrooms] since he was a boy in Cambodia.  He used to roast them in 
> the woods with the hummingbirds he killed with his slingshot."

If he was a boy in Cambodia, he wasn't killing hummingbirds. Hummingbirds
are New World species (North and South America).

Going along with the subject, my sister-in-law makes a "Hummingbird Cake."
I am afraid to ask how many hummingbirds she uses to make it. :)

Les

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Les Eastman
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Havre de Grace, MD

The eagle looked down on the river below
And he wrapped his wings round him and he fell like a stone
And the big salmon fought but the talons held true
And he shuddered as the world turned from silver to blue
                               Steve Earle