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The Thrush and the Quarry Blasts

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 23.

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The Thrush and the Quarry Blasts

On the edge of a slate quarry a thrush had made her nest. It was so close to danger that when the rock was blasted a peice of the falling slate came almost into the nest. At the ringing of a bell the bird saw the men run. She left her nest too, and after the explosion she returned. This the thrush continued to do whenever a blast was fired. The men rang the bell to hoax the bird, but she only peeped over the nest, and, as the men did not run, settled down again.