THE PICCADILLY PIGEON.
BRAVE RESCUE BY GIRL. In Piccadilly, not fifty yards from Piccadilly Circus, one of London's indomitable pigeons became bewildered by the traffic, stopped a moment too long In the roadway, and was struck and injured by a wheel of a motor-omnibus. It lay, bruised and almost (senseless, in the middle of the street. Another omnibus was approaching, which could hardly avoid crushing it to death. But a girl in a navy blue costume dashed swiftly from the pavement and picked up the wc/unded bird from before the approaching wliee's. Motor-omnibuses and taxicabs jarred to a standstill to avoid 'running down the rescuer, who stood holding the bird she had saved For a few moments all ths busy traffic of the street was stopped until she had reached the pavement, whero an admiring crowd gathered to watcli her skilful tending of jLho wounded bir<J»
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18101, 27 May 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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