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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17634, 11 December 1922, Page 2

A magpie was noticed emerging from a roadside letter box in Killawarra road, a few miles oat of Wingham, one recent Sunday afternoon, says a Sydney paper. Two residents coming down from Kimbriki witnessed the occurrence. The magpie had a. letter in its beak. No sooner had it got clear of the box than two other magpies attacked it, and appeared to be strenuously endeavouring to take the letter from the "postal-box thief." The eye-witnesses of the occurrence, however, declare that the bird stuck tenaciously to the letter. When they last saw the magpie it was flying in the direction of sunset. Some postal official will perhaps be blamed for the disappearance of this letter—and the service is in for a bad time generally if the magpies are going to start robi^&i^A&ix