Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-07-21 | Page 12 | Prize Ducklings Eat Hail, Turn up Toes

PRIZE DUCKLINGS EAT HAIL, TD1I OP TOES Flock of Twelve Swallow Frozen Pellets and Freeze to - Death. Although tho temperature for the nast week has boen hovering in tho neighborhood of 90, Thomas Lawrence of fcjouth Manchester, Conn., is mourning mourn-ing twelve prizo ducklings who met their-death by freezing. t Tho ducklings wero well and happy until the phenomenal phenome-nal arrival of a hailstorm on Saturday afternoon. With many awful quacks they dashed for shelter when tho first pelts touched their fluffy backs. One, attracted by the glittering globules, swallowed one. Its example was followed fol-lowed by others. A few minutes later tho original devouror fell over stiff and cold. One by ono the ducklings dropped drop-ped and the driving hail pelted their soft littlo bodies. When Lawrence camo to tho rescue he found them all frozen as thoroughly as if they had been in cold Btorage.