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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1914, Page 8

! jne 01 rsi,. Mark s, Venice, stands in a square in the I centre of the city, and when the ■j clock strikes twelve at noon, all I the birds from the city and the ; regions around fly to the square and settle down. It came in this I wise : a large-hearted woman passed j one noonday across the square, saw \ some birds shivering in the cold, ; and she scattered some crumbs of t bre N ad among them. The next day, iat the same hour, she scattered ; more, and so on, from year to year, until the day of her death, in her will she bequeathed a certain amount of money to keep up : the same practice, and now, at the first stroke of the bell at noon the birds begin to come, and soon cover the square.