A WOODEN-LEGGED PHEASANT.
Mr Frank Buckland tells a rather good story of the bird which Mr Beresford Hope regards as a kind of poultry from Persia. A friend of Mr Buckland's, when taking his holiday in the country last summer, found an unfortunate pheasant caught by one leg in a trap. The bones were comSletely smashed and the leg bleeding, leing a surgeon by profession and fond of operating, he sat down quietly, and taking out his pocket instrument, amputated the leg of the pheasant. He then cut from a light piece of wood an artificial leg to match the sound one. This he fastened on to the stump of the pheasant's leg, and let the bird go. In the course of the winter this bird was shot, and a paragraph went the round of the country papers of a most extraordinary case of a pheasant being shot, and having a wooden leg.
An Irishman says he can see no earthly reason why women should not be allowed to become medical men.
Why a door nail is any more dead than a door must be because it has been hit on the head. ,
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3547, 8 May 1880, Page 2
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193A WOODEN-LEGGED PHEASANT. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3547, 8 May 1880, Page 2
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