THE BIRD AND THE GOLD CUP
An extraordinary stoi-y has been told of a jeweller’s assistant walking past an Englishman’s house in Calcutta carrying a gold cup studded with precious stones intended for a Rajah living near by. The cup was wrapped in paper, and a kite, apparently supposing the parcel to contain food, swooped down and snatched it away. The assistant reported the loss but no
one believed him, and he was arrested. It happened that one of the Englishman's servants had had previous experiences of the doings of this particular bird and knew the exact spot on the roof where the kite Would examine its plunder; and he climbed up and found the cup which the kite bad abandoned in disgust as quite uneatable. The jeweller’s boy was thereupon released.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21186, 5 November 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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132THE BIRD AND THE GOLD CUP Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21186, 5 November 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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