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Shannon News, 25 January 1927, Page 3

What a touching story is that of the doomed duck (says Peter Simple", in the London Morning Post). It — : the story —comes all the way from New Zealand, and tells how the unhappy bird, purchased with a view to an early meal, made a desperate and successful bid for reprieve by laying an egg. The duck's new owner, think-, ing it might be useful in a not hitherto considered, put off execution, and the next day the duck: laid another egg. Space forbids us to follow day by day the breathless tale of this egg-laying race against death.' Suffice it to say that at the end of 365' days 365 eggs stood to the industrious creature's credit. The duck was clear-' ly'a mnner. Up to the present it hasalso proved a winner, though one imagines that the strain must be be-' ginning to tell. Let us hope that if and when the bird takes a day off it. will meet with the consideration to" which it is clearly entitled by its record.