STORK AS POSTMAN.
MESSAGE FROM AFRICA. One of the many storks which annually return to the neighbourhood of) the village of Liskau, in Germany, from distant Southern zone to rebuild their nests, was seen to be carrying something about his neck which only human hands could have placed there. Repeated efforts to approach the bird failed, until one of tho villagers finally hired the stork down, and then learned that tho bird earned a little leather case in which a note was enclosed. Tho note showed that the stork had come all the way from East Africa, where a German colonist, William Bucha, has his farm. Bucha must have anticipated that tho bird spent, its annual vacation in his native land, so he wrote: " Just a greeting to tho Fatherland," and used the stork to convey his message.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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138STORK AS POSTMAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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