Now they’ve shot a lapwing

Published: April 16, 2015 at 3:36pm
a lapwing

a lapwing

The bird has been seized by the police and a man is under arrest. What’s the excuse going to be this time?

He can’t very well say, like that other man did yesterday who shot a cuckoo and said he thought it was a turtle-dove, that he’s mistaken it for a quail – or a turtle-dove.