. American ornithology for the home and school . uthwards. Common. Length inches. AMERICAN ORNIT/fOLOGV. 8i AN INTERESTING CAPTIVE Free as the wind, that gently sways the tree tops; wild as the torrentthat dashes madly down the mountain side; proud as the monarch atwhose commands, thousand of subjects tremble; and brave as the gen-eral, who leads his army to victory, a diminutive hawk gracefully, yetswiftly wends his solitary way across the meadow. Not a movementin the grass below escapes his keen sight, and not a rustle of a fright-ened bird in the bordering shrubbery, but what his sensit
. American ornithology for the home and school . uthwards. Common. Length inches. AMERICAN ORNIT/fOLOGV. 8i AN INTERESTING CAPTIVE Free as the wind, that gently sways the tree tops; wild as the torrentthat dashes madly down the mountain side; proud as the monarch atwhose commands, thousand of subjects tremble; and brave as the gen-eral, who leads his army to victory, a diminutive hawk gracefully, yetswiftly wends his solitary way across the meadow. Not a movementin the grass below escapes his keen sight, and not a rustle of a fright-ened bird in the bordering shrubbery, but what his sensitive ear field mouse that has inadvertantly exposed itself in scurrying fromone retreat to another attracts his attention. A sudden swoop, a spas-modic squeak, and our hero, perched on a low stump, is greedily en-gaged in an anatomical examination of the smallest of rodents. Suchescapades, the catching of numerous beetles and an occasional excitingchase after some small bird, formed the every day events in Pidgyslife before I knew THE CHALLENGE. One day in early fall, his adventurous spirit carried him too far, and awatchful farmer shot him as he sailed over the hen house. His misfor-tune befell him purely upon circumstantial evidence, as probably he hadno designs on the inmates, but he was a hawk and hail to pay the pen-alty. Fortunately he was disabled in but one wing and was retained asa prisoner of war, instead of being promptly dispatched as is the usualcustom in such cases. More likely though he was kept for mercenaryreasons, as the following day he came into my possession. 82 \MERICAN ORNITHOLOGY.
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