Deseret Evening News | 1906-09-01 | Page 11 | A Remarkable Story

Story Gustave Gusta 0 flecker the chef chel o of the lid Hol Holland land hand House in New ew York recently Iol bought an apartment house houpe worth In discussion lon of 01 this purchase Mr Ir I Becker said Mid MidI I I 1 am on one of the th owners of 01 the tho Hol lie Holland lieland I land House Hou lOll and for n R of I have hn been bt n Interested in real estate I tate i Chefs lids In America get I 1 am nm happy hupp to tot cay t good salaries but bUl to state stale that I Ithe they the get el salaries big enough to allow allol I Ithem them every little while thile h II e to Invest their I surplus savings saving In apartment that Is ill an exaggeration like the pie story of tho the Breton farmer larmer There ThEro was vaa a farmer in Brittany who wished to tell a 11 visitor how ho his farm had been overrun with pies pie Pies you ou know knol arc are large birds black and white with lung lun tullia kind of ot crow row Th The farmer staid fold the pies devastated his fields horribly If It he put up scare care scarecrows scarecrows crows the tho th birds bird tore toro them down One Olle day lIa his hili young son on ran Into Inlo the granite farmhouse e and shouted Oh father r hundreds and hundreds if birds The wheat Is II being eaten aten up Th Iii farmer loaded his hili gun But Hut I where here was wall the shot hot It be found lie He put In A fl few handfuls of tacks Instead In Than he run ran out The iho wheat field was wa black blaek and nd white lIke ike R a checker hecker hoard board with pies The farmer armer gave I a 1 loud yell III nod the birds birdsAll All til II new up Into Inlo a tall poplar He lip fired Ored and lo 10 every ctr bird was u nailed fast to the tree They The were nailed fast Their lAP ping wings flings filled t the air all with A R loud whirr The farmer farn r d Moral Mood watching them Then a strange thing happened Thy Tha birds with one grand granI united I effort pulled hulled up lip the huge tree trel and flew away a with lIh It r I