MAGPIE'S AUDACITY.
STEALS FALSE TEETH. SNAKE ON BREAKFAST TABLE. (moil ous owjr cobbbsposdbkt.) SYDNEY, December 30. From two of the leading towns on the south coast and the north coast of Now South "Wales there come storiea which would sound almost incredible hut for the circumstantial details which surrounded them as they appeared in the I Sydney newspapers. ! A farmer near Grafton, while at work
in a paddock, removed a new < set of false teeth which had been causing him some bother, and placed them on a log close by. The man was astounded to sec, a magpie swoop down on the teetn, fly with them to a high tree, and try to smash them up against a dead limb. .Banning-for a gun, he fired at the magpie and missed. The bird, with the molars firmly in its beak, was startled.
and flew off, with the farmer in not pursuit It was soon lost to view an ?he bush. The irate farmer•now yearning for the false teeth at whien he was incUned to swear while he was -breaking them in," has proclaimed a vendetta against the magpie tribe. commence I"*** . Jf, It atla., fortunate than tto m»8f». """ fered instantaneous deatb.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 9
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200MAGPIE'S AUDACITY. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 9
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