Mr. Latham, the Master of Jones’s College, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, has
two ravens named Agrippa and Agrippina. Mr. Latham throws Agrippa a
piece of cheese; Agrippa takes it, hides it carefully and then goes away
contented; but Agrippina has had her eye upon him and immediately goes
and steals it, hiding it somewhere else; Agrippa, however, has always one
eye upon Agrippina and no sooner is her back turned than he steals it and
buries it anew; then it becomes Agrippina’s turn, and thus they pass the
time, making believe that they want the cheese though neither of them
really wants it. One day Agrippa had a small fight with a spaniel and
got rather the worst of it. He immediately flew at Agrippina and gave
her a beating. Jones said he could almost hear him say, “It’s all your
fault.”