Show PIGEONS CARRY THE or OP D DRS ER S messengers used by english butchers butcher for country trade orders executed by post Is a corn com mon enough phrase nowadays no wadas but orders ba b pigeon post is something nev iw the alion bigpon post has been recent ly instituted ba b don ila Is son of a butcher it at herne bay wb who r zu lafay employs homer bonier pigeons to carry orders from outlying districts to his fa a ther a shop mr harris jr when he be goes to col lect elect orders takes six of his fastest birds in the trap lelh him after he has gone a couple of miles and ad n col lecter 1 t dozen orders he liberates a pigeon with the orders i in a little metal case attached to the birds bird s foot before five minutes have elapsed these orders are in the deliver trap on the dav dv to the customers la t arlou stages of his round which aji takes three hours mr larrib liberates albi rales the he other blicq anith ft ath more orders and b by tire he time he re wins tin na to the he shop all ill the e orders re celled in bi pigeon post ha have ve been dis patched sometimes mi rounds take me more moie thin three hours said raid mr har ris and former customers 11 ed an distance out did not get their joints until too late for the midday meal NOW ow my pigeons bale baie solved the difficulty difficult the birds mil often travel at a speed of more than a mile a minnie so iou on can guess gue the time the save I 1 have never known a bird to go astral astra london daily mall mail |