In a message dated 10/4/2002 9:14:41 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > She also had one of those cigarette box's that had a bird on > top, and when you wanted a cigarette, the bird would dip it's head into the > > box, and pull one out for you. Anyone remember those? > No . . . but I do remember a cute little toy (we brought one home when we went to Niagara Falls when I was little) that consisted of a glass bird set on a horizontal pivot and also a small glass of water. The bird would bob back and forth, and each time it would bob farther forward until its bill was immersed in the water. It would "drink" for several seconds and then return to nodding in the upright position until it needed another drink, maybe thirty seconds to a minute later. We had ours for a year or two, and then I accidentally knocked it off the mantelpiece onto the hearth and broke it. Doggone! Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Yep, weren't they fun. And we had a gyroscope that went round the glass edge. Dot ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: <Up2Nutrix@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 12:07 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re:zink for sink, > In a message dated 10/4/2002 9:14:41 PM Mountain Standard Time, > NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > > She also had one of those cigarette box's that had a bird on > > top, and when you wanted a cigarette, the bird would dip it's head into the > > > > box, and pull one out for you. Anyone remember those? > > > > No . . . but I do remember a cute little toy (we brought one home when we > went to Niagara Falls when I was little) that consisted of a glass bird set > on a horizontal pivot and also a small glass of water. The bird would bob > back and forth, and each time it would bob farther forward until its bill was > immersed in the water. It would "drink" for several seconds and then return > to nodding in the upright position until it needed another drink, maybe > thirty seconds to a minute later. We had ours for a year or two, and then I > accidentally knocked it off the mantelpiece onto the hearth and broke it. > Doggone! > > Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- > Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >