A CANARY SURVIVES
SYDNEY, Jan. 27. Astonishment was writ large on the faces of workmen engaged the other day in demolishing a blackened wall left after a bigfire in the city. They suddenly heard the silvery notes of a canary, and espied the charred and scorched cage perched perilously beside a tottering beam. The canary was Dick, the pet of the Victoria Hotel, and by some miracle ho survived the infernA Durifcg the fire the bird’s cage hung on a Wall sheer above the pit of flame, and the wall itself became very nearly red hot. The heat was so great that even the cage was charred. Dick was probably saved by a stream of water from a. fireman’s hose, poured over him by chance all through the outbreak. Nobody ever suspected he wias still alive. Blackened, and with his pmfcathers singed by the adventure, he was welcomed back. He is now a hero.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6536, 17 February 1928, Page 8
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