KILLED BY A WEATHER-VANE.
A paper records a singular accident which happened to a swallow near Cold Spring. On a windy, blustering day a farmer noticed a bird, as he thought, perched upon the weather vane of his barn. The curious thing about it was that it did not fly away. Toward night the boys began stoning it. Still it did not fly. The next morning it was still there, and one of the boys climbed out of the cupola window and looked up. The bird was a swallow, and instead of it being perched upon the vane, it was impaled upon it, and was dead. There was no easy way of getting at it, and there it remained till there was nothing but the skeleton left, and finally even that fell to pieces. The supposition is that in one of the bird’s sudden swoops or turns it failed to see the shifting vane, which veered just in time to strike it in the breast.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XI, 12 September 1896, Page 347
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165KILLED BY A WEATHER-VANE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XI, 12 September 1896, Page 347
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