HANDS OFF.
Most young men when they travel in the woods of South America have their wits about them —most but not all. It is related of one that, seeing a parraquet enter a hole in a tree, he climbed up to capture the bird in its nest, as he thought. He put in his hand and felt something soft and flabby.
These, he imagined., must be the young ones. He bad still sense enough, however, to try to look into the nest. So ho prodded the hole wider with a stick, and then saw a huge boa, its jaws fringed with the feathers of the unfortunate bird. Hdescended that tree in the twinkling of an eye, and did not forget this lesson in bird-nesting.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 27 January 1913, Page 7
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125HANDS OFF. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 27 January 1913, Page 7
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