With a silver spoon in his mouth

Latest addition to the Westlake household at 77 The Square, Hartland – ‘Jackie’, the rook – was not born with a silver spoon in its mouth but it certainly gets fed with one.
It was Mr and Mrs R H Westlake’s 14 year old son, Norman, a pupil of Hartland All-age School, who found the rook two months ago.
He was out for a walk near the Bottoms when he saw the rook lying helplessly on the ground with its leg broken.
‘Jackie’ is a good ‘mixer’. He has to be because there are two other family pets – ‘Tiger’ the cat, and ‘Jock’ the dog. Said Mr Westlake: “Believe it or not they all get on like a house on fire”.
One good thing which gives ‘Jackie’ at good deal of amusement is to peck the tobacco out of a cigarette but that proves rather expensive!
The full Gazette article is dated 18 July 1958