The White Pigeon 



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"How did the pigeon transfer work out?" 



"Fine. I had no trouble in getting the birds into a box and 

 they stood the trip O.K." 



"It's all settled then?" I said. 



"Not quite. The male stayed all right but the brown female 

 was back again the day after I left them." 



"What are you going to do now?" 



He looked a bit sheepish and said: 



"Nothing, I guess. My wife says that any bird smart and 

 eager enough to fly thirty miles over unknown country to its 

 old home thinks enough of that home to be entitled to stay 

 there. And I guess she's right. You know it's hard to throw 

 out an animal that adopts you." 



That kind of tie-up can easily happen where civilization 

 is close to birds and mammals. In the country it manifests 



