NOT TO BE PROSECUTED.
" Some people living at Harrow; in England, were startled one day by a heavy thump on- the roof, followed by a great smashing'of glass. ■.. ■ : They ran out, and found broken tiles and a shivered pane of glass on the verandah, but no trace of the trespasser who had done all the damage. Had someone thrown isomething from an aeroplane,', had a parachutist fallen, or was it a visitor from Mars? '
They found the trespasser in a neighbour's garden. He was a wounded swan. It seems that some shanr sportsman had shot him, and He had flown in panic from his river home until he dropped faint and exhausted on the roof. '"". -.■•■-■-■ --. .... .
We are glad to say, that the people, were not angry with tho trespasser. They carried him tenderly indoors. And ii: skilled nursing can' avail he will soon be back on tho ■ river,-telling his mate that although-some human :beinga are, very wicked others are;so kind that they make', tip. for the bad; ones...
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 15
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168NOT TO BE PROSECUTED. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 15
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