MAKING A BIRD LAUGH.
A TRUE AUSTRALIAN STORY. In Australia it is the usual thing for the kookaburra, which we know as the laughing jackass, to destroy snakes andl other bushland pests. Not long ago, while some workmen were demolishing an old building, they were surprised to see a kookaburra on the ground, helplessly intertwined by a big black snake. The men quickly rushed to the rescue, and while one pinned the snake's head to the ground another succeeded in setting free the unfortunate bird.
So thankful was the bird for regaining its freedom that it immediately flew on to a tree close by and laughed for half an hour.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)
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