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Show FEROCITY OF ENGLISH SPARROWS Whn They Are I'euned Cp Together Ueath Alone Ends Their Fights. A great many young men go to Rlverton at this season to shoot live pigeons as they fly from traps, and some of the young men agreed recently re-cently that for a target sparrows would make an excellent substitute. So they caught no less than a hundred hun-dred sparrows and put them in a big cage against their next shoot, which was to come off in three days. But they found at the end of that time that all of the birds but six were dead. They had fought and fought among themselves until only those six invincible invin-cible cnampions remained. The young men concluded that they had been so unlucky as to calch unusually vile-tempered vile-tempered birds, and at considerable trouble they landed another batch. These, too, however, battled together, and after forty-eight hours had gone by there lay in the cage eighty-four dead sparrows, while two live ones staggered feebly to and fro, and, when their breath returned, began to fignt again. The young men are now convinced, says the Philadelphia Record, of what they should have known before, that no living creature is more ferocious or more game than the common Eng' lisli sparrow. |