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Show Bird Made Much Trouble When telephone service suddenly stopped between Melbourne and Al-bury, Al-bury, Australia, says the Pathfinder Magazine, a long, careful search revealed re-vealed that the cause of the trouble wai a magpie. This busy bird had built a nest on the top of a pole a nest 14 inches across and about 8 inches deep. The size of the nest would not have mattered, but evidently evi-dently Intent on making the new borne durable and solid, the magpie had used several pieces of wire which bad been snipped off and left on the ground hy repair men. One of the pieces of wire was In contact with two wires of the line, which naturally caused a short circuit and stopped the service. |