To the Rescue
J)EAR ANNE SHIRLEY,—I hud a little adventure the other day. I was bicycling along the main road, and a faint chirrup caught my ear. It was nothing unusual, because a high hedge bordered tho road, and lots of little white-eyes lived in the leaves and fed on the ripe berries. I stopped just out of curiosity, and a little green form lay at the side of tho road. Bending down I picked tho
little bird tip. It looked as if its tiny leg was broken. On arriving at home I placed the bird on a warm bottle in the sunshine. But the old puss was looking interested, so an old cage bedded with straw provided the bird with a home till it got better. In a day he was eating out of my hand, with a name given him, "Whitey." Whitey was still very sick, but he would hop 011 one leg and with the aid of his wings from each side of the cage, then very abruptly go to
sloop. Tie flew away very joyously two days ago with a wonderfully healed leg. Perhaps ho is the little bird which lives in the wattle tree near by.—Yours sincerely, Tory Julian, Tauranga.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23719, 27 July 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)
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