 It is counted little better than a kite , for it is of ravenous quality , and is very mischievous ; it will steal and carry away any thing it finds about the house , that is not too heavy , tho ' not fit for its food ; as knives , forks , spoons and linnen cloths , or whatever it can fly away with , sometimes they say it has stolen bits of firebrands , or lighted candles , and lodged them in the stacks of corn , and the thatch of barns and houses , and set them on fire ; but this I only had by oral tradition . 
