A correspondent in the Eltham Argus writes: “The press report from Auckland regarding the mesmerism of a horse by a white traffic line recalls to mind the peculiar holding power a chalk line has on poultry. Try this—it is amusing to the young folk, and even tickles the elders, particularly if the fowls are in moult. Hold a fowl’s beak dorm to a hoard and a table, and, commencing from the beak, draw a chalk line away from “the fowl’s beak, letting go the hold on the fowl as you slowly draw the line. The fowl or duck will remain with its beak on the line drawn until pushed or otherwise frightened off.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40010, 15 October 1929, Page 1
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