Fun With Flamingoes.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 11

Fun With Flamingoes.

"They're funny fellows, I can tell you,' the captain declared. " I met a man down the coast who told me that once he was huntin' on the Florida lowlands and came upon a whole colony of flamingoes among the- mangrove trees. He watched their antics for some time— some standin' on one leg, some with their long necks in all sorts of°curiouB positions, some stalking up and down as solemn as parsons- and he thought it wouldn't bo a bad idea to play a joke on them. " So he took a fishline, and when the birds flew away he fastened one end of the line to the root of a tree and climbed with the other end into another tree." " Before long the birds came back, then the fun began. As soon as one or two stepped across the line, the man in the tree gave it a pull, and the flamingoes began hoppin' and trippin' and dancin' about, now fallin' down, now jumpin 1 across and really seemin' to enjoy it immensely. He actually had 'em all a-skippin' rope, and there's no tellin' how long the'd 'a' kept it up if it hadn't been so very ifunny that my friend couldn't help laughin' out loud ; that frightened them off. That may seem a rather brisk story," said Captain Sam; " but, from what I've seen of my specimen,, I fully believe it."