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Show BIRD'S TROUBLES AT AN END Fancier's Pet, Anticipated Winner ot Many Prizes, Most Efectuatly "Isolated." Here is a poultry story which comes from the country. While away on a holiday a fancier who owns some valuable specimens instructed a servant serv-ant a rather new country girl in the feeding of the birds, and gave strict directions that she was to communicate com-municate with him immediately in the event of any of them showing slgna of aliment. One day he received a letter stating that a bird of which he had had great expectations as a prize winner was unwell, and from the symptoms described de-scribed the fancier concluded that it was a case ,f roup a very infectious trouble. Accordingly he wired to the girl: "Isolate bird at once. Important. Home this evening." "Where did you put the bird, Mary?" he asked as soon as he arrived. "It's in the coal 'ole," said she. "You isolated it at once, of course?" he added. "Well, I didn't," replied the girl, simply. "I got Jim to do it. 'E just gie it one whack wi' the broomstock, an' it was all ovor In a twinkling!" London Tit-Bits. |