Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1911 — A Lost Homer [ARTICLE]

A Lost Homer

U I always thought a homing pigeon would go straight home,’’ said tt man who kept his country house open for the winter week-ends. ‘‘But I was up at my place a while ago and the gardener told me about a curious exception to the rule. He whs out in the bam one day when in flew a pigeon through the open door. After it had flown from one post to another, he approached it gently and caught it Then the bird was seen to be a homer, with a gilt band on i one leg and two silver ones on the other. As it war. toward night, the gardener thought it would be only humane to take it Indoors and release it the next day after breakfast. But in the morn-

ing the pigeon flew back to the barn, then to a-neighboring roof, and finally back to the barn for the night. That homer hung around the place ten days, and then he flew off, never to be seen again. The only way I can account for It is that he lost his bearings and stayed by us until he found them —or thought he did."