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Show Birds Commit Suicide. A very strange occurrence in national na-tional history has been seen In the flooded country ot the Feu district In easterii England. A narrow bank runs alongside a flooded area of nearly near-ly 2,000 acres. Walking along this with Intention of learning what hud happened to his partridges, a keopor put up a covey It Hew In tho direction direc-tion of tho longest arm ot tho flood. Tho birds, which were rather a late-batched late-batched covey, aftor flying some distance, dis-tance, suddenly and at ono momoat together dropped Into tho water aid wero all drowned, It has been much discussed lately bow the partridges are ablo to fly, but the curious part of this collapse was that the whole number foil simultaneously, simul-taneously, as If they had doclded to He togother |