TWO TO ONE ON TOWER

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)

TWO TO ONE ON TOWER

FIGHT AND HOW IT ENDED. People walking at the foot of St. Peter's Cathedral in Vienna saw, high up in the tower, a desperate fight being waged between two jackdaws and a pigeon. ■ *.. The jackdaws, who had evidently never been told that two to one is not cricket, were hacking away savagely at the poor pigeon till its blood flowed over tho parapet. In vain did the lookers-on shout and clap their hands to scare the jackdaws; but secure in their eerie height, they paid no attention, and it would have gone ill with their victim had not someone remembered to ring up the firemen, those Good Samaritans who might also be called the world’s odd job men, for there is no task they are not ready to turn their hands to.

That they should have arrived with their engine and ladders while the fight was still on, and that one of them should have climbed to the top of the tower in time to save the pigeon was surely a triumph of efficiency.