BIRD IN THE MAIL BAG
When a mail bag reached the post office at Wick, in Caithness, the sorting clerk who opened it was surprised to see a sparrow fly out. The bag had come from Lyth, nine miles /away, and the sub-post-master at Lyth explained. that he kept a cat which hunts sparrows. It seemed more than likely, he thought, that to escape the clutches of the hunting cat, the poor sparrow flew into the open mail bag. Luckily for the bird the cat remained out of the bag, and so the sparrow was posted, in safety to Wick.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 32, 13 December 1948, Page 5
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100BIRD IN THE MAIL BAG Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 32, 13 December 1948, Page 5
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