TALE OF FAMILY PETS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 43, 11 May 1928, Page 15

TALE OF FAMILY PETS

PRETTILY TOLD BY A CHILD, A boy of eight, writing to 1YA, thus deseribes the family pets. The extract from the letter is printed just as it was written :-- "My brother caught a little magpie and he brought it home and we fed it and it became into a very nice little magpie and we use to chase it. We called it Peter and then when it got 2 litte bit bigger, we gave it worms an. then when it got alittle bit bigger and Mother was putting in any plants, this little peter used to watch her putting them in, and every time my mther used to go a-way he tuged at them and puli them out; and one time, my father put in a weeping elm, and peter use to watch him puting it in, and when he had gone, one day he went to it and we watched him trying to pull it out, and he looked so funny and he wondered what on earth had happened to it wy he could not get it out, and we did laugh and then we got some fan tail pigeons. We brought them home and they were is white as anything, and my mother never hawt seen pigeons as white ag them and we ealled them Romeo and juelyve and they follow my brother when he calle them for their food they don't pull anything out like peter use to, we can tell wich is a she and witeh is a he be eause the she hag a little top not and he hasset a tope noy My father bonght a little eat home and it became a big eat and it got three little wons and we gave to a way and we kept the gray wons it was like a tiger, One day my mother was getting some sugar and a at hed got in and nun of the cats wood go there so one day this little eat cort it and killed it and was plays ing wit’ it and my mother saw it with it and she tokl us so now I must closs."