Show f q A QCBKS story comes from New Zealand I Zea-land The owls in that island used to I be as harmless as doves indeed they ij once were mousing owls and therefore i there-fore useful But one night a settler left a sheepskin nailed to his roof and an owl came along and tested of the fat I l mutton left thereon That owl became I a sheepkiller alighting on a sheeps L t back three nights later Still more C strange all the other owls began to like 2 f mutton and now the New Zealand t ° birds of that species slay thousands i r upon thousands of sheep their appetites > appe-tites growing by what they feed on and i 3t their number increasing in proportion i i to their t prosperity They light on the 1 i backs of the sheep f and tear the poor I l beasts with their beaks going at once II t through the carcass to the kidney fat wuch to the owls tongue is the dain tiest of morsels |