| Show TELL OF APPROACH certain birds ind and animals make the tha best kind of sentinels that an army can employ A wounded soldier asked what had bad surprised him most in the battle zone told of finding a robins nest in hi an empty shell case As a rulo rule birds are the finest sentinels in the animal kingdom they become aware of approaching aircraft long before man hears anything early in n tho the war parrots were kept at the eiffel tower as sentinels but they grew accustomed to the sound of enemy planes and were no longer of use pheasants always grow restless and chatter noisily it if zeppelins zeppelina Zepp elins tire are approaching pro aching oven when they are fart fari away so far that man can hear no 1 sound round what ts is perhaps stranger Is the fact that such ordinary creatures as pigs should sight a balloon when it Is coming coaling over the blister makes no sound yet should one appear against the sky miles from a farmyard the farmer will bo made aware of the fact by the curious antles antics of ills his pigs find and the clucking of his hens toy dogs always are susceptible to the presence of danger and many a pet shows uneasiness imen siness before a raid cats too show fear of gunfire and field seem to know 1 when danger threatens dogs birds and horses are very sensitive to sound watch the birds during a daylight raid listen to the dogs and visit iho ho stable where the horse restively stamps up and down but that all animals can accustom themselves to sounds that cause fear Is proved by our cavalry horses logs that accompany their masters into tho birin firing line ene and the robins nest in the empty C shell case |
