Birds in Captivity
Sir,—Looking into a shop window, I saw a little toddler of perhaps three years, her blue eyes gazing intently on two little blue love birds in a tiny, tiny cage. "Why don’t they let them cut?” she asked the lady who accompanied her, and looked at me with the same intelligence. “Yes,” I said, “they should all be free.” lias humanity died? Has it become extinct? These same helpless little creatures are subject to the unnatural tortures of electric .light at night, instead of the soft shadow of the leaves our Creator gave them. For the sake of all that is noble —and in mercy for dumb creatures—can nothing be done. —I am, etc., A SILENT CHALLENGE. Wellington, April 9.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 167, 11 April 1935, Page 9
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123Birds in Captivity Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 167, 11 April 1935, Page 9
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