Temperamental Pigeons

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 7

Tem p e r amental Pigeons

jJ® homing- pigeon is a temperaw bird (says a writer in the SydBulletin”), and this trait some-'•'-a leads to great agony of mind in ;-^ t ° Wne r. All fanciers know the bird 5 { Won ’t ‘‘clock in” when he comes ° m a race, but loafs round on an tree or chimney-pot, telling oj* ®l rls how he knocked the feathers :>i the hawks on his fly home. A if entered some of his birds at ce ney ®how. paying fees in ad-icf-f■ The evening they were to be Kth to ore Park they took offence w.® fam ly washing, hung out near .>> lof t, and, after a stopwork meet.nearhy housetop, declined to j7- n their abode. Their maddened U a *• blaspheming as he thought of a ort>rt Ste<i entrance-money, was igan(t the whole mob spent the ■fcorni ° n lll e tiles. I went over next si ge ltlg °n the chance of a few dead on *°r a pie, but they were still !or *L°°f when their owner departed or *» with murder in his heart.