WHEN PIGS FLY
CROSS-CHANNEL SQUEALS OF TWO BERKSHIRE. Two pigs flew from London to Paris recently. They are not the first, lo upso'.l the old adage anent their inability to do eo, says tlio Paris correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," for moro than ono French airmail has taljsn a suckling up for a flight as a mascot in pest years, but tliey,nre certainly the first to uwlcrtnko such a voyago as paying passengers.
Thoy did the journey in an ordinary air mail- machine, which is used daily in the strvico between norodromes noar Paris and London, and arrived apparently none the worse for tTioir experience, though en routo at sevpral Hundred feet nbnvo the Channel, the pilot reponis that they vociferously complained of the speed at which they Tvero travelling. They were taken to an important stud farm.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 9
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138WHEN PIGS FLY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 9
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