An owl perched disapprovingly, last week, on the locomotive of the Leningrad-Vologda express. The engine began to chuff. The owl hunched down and fixed two luminous, menacing eyes upon the smiling engineer.
Roaring now, the express touched 50 miles an hour. Wind blown, the owl sought support by hooking a long sharp claw into the mechanism of the air brake. Instantly the valves tripped, setting all brakes. Passengers pitched higgeldy piggeldy from their seats, cursing. The owl, its claw caught in the tripped mechanism, was captured, disentangled and preserved alive by the kindly engineer.
Commissar (Minister) of Health N. A. Semashko...
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