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Show I I I all ales As told to: ELMO FRANK E. . i SCOTT HAGAN WATSON The End of the Philly-Loo TT IS a well-known fact that the 1 phllly-loo bird is extinct but accounts ac-counts of the death of the lust sur-vlvcr sur-vlvcr vary. Larry Flint, a eniis.vl-vania eniis.vl-vania newspaper man, says he saw the tragedy out In Wyoming. r "The phllly-loo was ferociously fond of the holes in doughnuts. His method of eating them was uulque; he bHtked up to them, slipped his tall through them, then (licked it around In frout and fed himself. "An old-timer out there, knowing of this peculiarity sought out the last surviving phllly-loo and Inld several doughnut holes down in froat of the bird. In order to eat the hole, the phllly-loo had to move his tall around Into the proper Jux-taposltion. Jux-taposltion. This brought about his end." Hut V. K. Fuller of the Ithame (N. D.) Review lias another version of the story, lie says that he and another an-other editor had the Job of hunting down the lust survivors of the race to serve at a bnnquet for some visiting vis-iting newspaper men. Near a mountain moun-tain In the Bud Lands they flushed a covey and started chasing them. "The philly-loos began circling the mountains," relates Mr. Fuller. "As they did so each bird grabbed the tall of the bird ahead and as they mounted upward and the circle narrowed, nar-rowed, they swallowed to take up the slack. They kept circling and swallowing until each bird had completely com-pletely swallowed the bird ahead, and they entirely disappeared from before our eyes. All that is left are a few tracks circling the mountain that louk just like those made by an automobile driven by a one-armed one-armed driver. I've never seen "a phllly-loo bird since that time. Western Newspapw Union. |