PERCY, THE PENGUIN

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22195, 11 September 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)

PERCY, THE PENGUIN

One* Sunday night, Percy, the Penguin, decided to waddle Up to Camerons. -He was about 400' yards from the shore when he was captured by a band of boys. He chattered angrily, and indignantly, and probably meant:— "Humans are big bullies. They will not leave penguins alone." The boys held his sharp hooked beak, and his claw-wcbbed feet as they carried him to the school-

master, who put him in a barrel with a sack over the top. In the morning the teacher showed Percy to the children. My dog Rover was anxious to chase Mr Penguin, and it took me all my time to held him back. We took Percy round to the back of the school, placing him in a drain, where he only fluttered abcut, unable to get out. We then lifted him cut, and let him go in the field. Percy became so angry with the laughing and chattering boys and gi: :s that he chased the children rcund the field. At last, he came to a fence, and alter climbing through, he gave us a look as if to .ay. "Thank goodness I am out of thai pickle. I thought those cruel human;; were going to kill me! The rogues." He then waddled over to a pony which was quietly grazing. On hearing sounds of approach, the periy locked round, and, eaLchi'.ig ;■;' ht of P .':■•.■;/, hj ' gave him a loom which nvet '' :. : i ] y meant, "If thnt thing !■ i.: it vill know whnt my b-vk lnv;i tr< ! lil:<\" Pccy, Ft. 'iig th:'t w'.i.'i cd decided it wru'd <;-> \v::;or not to be ro ino-i'sitive. H;: rlvut'-'d ell' down to th • bead, thinkinc; hj" would not call in at C?mv>vons a r ;nin. (From Camerons School. )