Show BOYS GETTING RICH ON SPARROW EGG BOUNTY The boys of Salt Lake are busily engaged engaged engaged en en- in a a. new industry the gathering g of sparrow eggs on w which ich a a. bounty of 10 cents a a. dozen Is given All over overtown overtown town boys may be seen with ladders ta taller ler than the average house climbing up into poplar trees and up on peoples people's porches and the eaves of their houses In hot pursuit of sparrow eggs Much amusement was afforded Y YM M. M C. C A. A Secretary John Axton today by watching two youngsters robbing sparrow sparrow sparrow spar spar- row nests With a a. tall ladder they into the trees and find several several several sev sev- eral nests full of eggs In one instance the bird nester found six eggs and a question arose as to how he should get the eggs down without breaking them i I Finally the idea dawned on the boy that he could carry them down in his mouth so he placed c six eggs ci in his mouth a and started t rf down w the h gl ladder Wh When n he was vas about ha half f way down something caused him to strike his chin against a rung of the ladder The mouth closed on the eggs and every everyone one was broken Such a a. spluttering and spitting spitting spitting spit spit- ting of egg shells and y yolks Mr 1 Axton ton said he had nev never r seen before Then a council of war war var was vas vas held by bythe bythe bythe the boys at the foot of the tree and I again their ingenuity came to to- their reScue res reS- cue A tin can and a long string were secured and after that when a boyup boy went up into the tree tree aft after r eggs ggs he he- would I carefully place them l hi in the can and with his improvised elevator lower them to the ground |