A STRANGE INDUSTRY.
"In France, at this season," says a bird dealer, "the banks of the streams are yellow with bonfires every night. About the fires loaf peasants, men and women, smoking and chattering. They keep the blaze going all night, and at dawn the ground is an inch or two deep vith May flies, fireflies, moths—little creatures that flew out of the darkness into those clear a_nd gem-like flames, fluttered forth again in' agony, fell, and died. The tiny corpses are" sold to the French bird-dealers at .twopence or threepence a pint, and are resold for food to the owners of pet birds, fincluis, thrushes, canaries, nightingales, and the like."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7251, 9 August 1907, Page 4
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111A STRANGE INDUSTRY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7251, 9 August 1907, Page 4
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