A rookery is a delightful addition to a garden in the country, but a "spadgery" in a city street is a very different proposition. So thinks the dweller in a Berlin flat, who has been to see the magistrates about ijt. His tale of grievance was that thousands of sparrows had selected out of an ave-, nue of 400 trees the very two under his flat in which to nest. Their friend ly gossip as they g» to roost at nightfall is almost as bad as the noise made when they fall out at break of day. The din has proved too much for the German tenant, who not only asked to be allowed to break his lease, 'but is seeking to recover damages- from hu landlord ag w*U,
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20562, 2 June 1932, Page 7
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