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Show all ales Aj told to: ELMO FRANK E. .-d SCOTT HAGAN WATSON The End of the Philly-Loo IT IS a well-known fact that the phllly-loo bird is extinct but accounts ac-counts of the death of the last survivor sur-vivor vary. Larry Flint, a Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania newspaper man, says he saw the tragedy out In Wyoming. "The philly-Ioo w-as ferociously fond of the holes In dougtinuts. His method of eating tliem was unique; he backed up to them, slipped his tail through them, then flicked It around In front and fed himself. "An old-timer out there, knowing of this peculiarity, sought out the last surviving pliilly-loo and laid several doughnut holes down In front of the bird. In order to eat the hole, the philly-loo had to move his tall around Into the proper juxtaposition. jux-taposition. This brought about his end." But F. E. Fuller of the Uhame (N. D.) Review has another version of the story. He says that he and another an-other editor had the job of hunting down the last survivors of the race to serve at a banquet for some visiting vis-iting newspaper men. Near a mountain moun-tain In the Bad Lands they flushed a covey and started chasing them. "The philly-loos began circling the mountains, relates Mr. Duller, 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 look just like those made by an automobile driven by a one-armed one-armed driver. I've never seen phllly-loo bird since that time." Western Newspaper Union. |