RAVENS IN THE TOWER.
In the Tower of London on Tower Green, where Anno Boleyn was executed, four ravens now strut. Fopular belief credits them with fabulous ago, but Sandy, the oldest, is only about 15, and tlio oldest one recorded committed suicide by eating too much liver at 68. Why the ravens are kept, or why thero are. four of them, nobody knows. Perhaps it is because, in the old days, once a thing got insido the tower it never got out again. Only one, which sailed away over the Thames with clipped pinions, has ever escaped. Once the birds used to be purchased, but now. in less wealthy days the authorities wait until one is presented. _ What they do with them when they die, and thousands must have died in the history 01 the Tower, no one seems &o know.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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