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Updated: May 29, 2025
He will tell you, as he did Mr. Astley, that during that week he had taken about 500 birds, and that that number was a fair average for each of the 12 other roccolos. This means the destruction of about 5,000 songbirds per week in that neighborhood alone! Another keeper of a roccolo told Mr.
Astley that during the previous autumn he took about 10,000 birds at his small and comparatively insignificant roccolo. And above that awful roccolo of slaughtered innocents rose a wooden cross, in memory of Christ, the Merciful, the Compassionate!
In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the protection of these birds during their breeding season must be very effective, for otherwise the supply for the Italian slaughter of the Innocents would long ago have fallen to nothing. The Germans love birds, and all wild life. I wonder how they like the Italian roccolo.
If they are too mean-spirited to rise up, make a row about it, and stop it, then let them pay the price; but, by the Eternal, Antonio shall not come to this country with the song-bird tastes of the roccolo and indulge them here! The above facts have been cited, not at all for the benefit of Europe, but for our own good.
The grove and the tower are A ROCCOLO! A huge, permanent, merciless, deadly trap, for the wholesale capture of songbirds! The tower is the hiding place of the fowler, and the calling birds are decoy birds whose eyes have been totally blinded by red-hot wires in order that they will call more frantically than birds with eyes would do.
As an exhibit of the groveling pusillanimity of the human soul, the roccolo of northern Italy reveals minus qualities which can not be expressed either in words or in figures. And what is the final exhibit of the gallant knight of the roccolo, the feudal lord of the modern castle and its retainers? The answer is given by Dr.
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