Show t A PATRIARCHAL PEAFOWL The oldest peafowl In the world Is believed to be that ow owned ed by Thomas Lambert a farmer of ot Sulphur Well WeB Metcalf l county The bird apparently Is Just as active bas as as ever He has roosted In trees years In 1810 Horatio Thompson came to Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky from Virginia bringing with him this peafowl This bird was then between between be be- tween 10 and 15 years old When Mr Thompson died this gay knight of passed to Thomas Lambert For 75 76 years the peafowl roosted on the samo same limb of ot a large oak tree treo until the tho tree was cut down This bird Is known all over southern Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky and Peafowl school In Metcalfe County was named In his honor 7 |