HEN’S AIR RECORD.
Fluttering down 2Cooft. on her own wing-power, from an aeroplane whence .sho had been dropped, a bantam hen alighted safely on her feet at a ranch near Alviss, California. Strutting about for a time, giving vent to her' righteous indignation with loud cacklin, she then laid an egg. Air John Brown, the ranch owner, found fastened to the bird’s leg with tiny celluloid rings, a slip of paper, on which was written: “This chicken dropped 2060 ft from an aeroplane. Finders are keepers.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1929, Page 5
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86HEN’S AIR RECORD. Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1929, Page 5
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