BRAZIL’S GREAT HOTEL FOR SWALLOWS
Some years ago the townsfolk of Campinas found that their marketbuilding was too small. They decided to pull it down and build a much larger place. Other towns-people objected, for if they did they would destroy hundreds of swallows’ nests. The Brazilians are great lovers of birds, and they are especially fond of the swallow because it makes war on tiie flies and midgets which make war on the Brazilians. So the Town Councillors decided to build a new marketbuilding on a, different site and to turn the old one into a Municipal Bird House. As long as the birds arc in residence they have the house to themselves. Where men shouted prices nothing but the twittering of birds is heard. But when they have migrated an army of volunteers marches in to clean and repair the swallows’ hotel. There are a hundred thousand nests there. It is one of the sights of the city, and strangers who come to see it often give the townsfolk cause to rejoice that they did not destroy the picturesque building.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 5
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