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Show Robin Kills an Adder. In a vigorous battle between a robin and an adder fourteen Inches lone, the bird killed tho snalta. The fight took placo In tho garden of Georgo S. Jones. In Leominster, Mnsa., and was isccn by John A. Hannlu and othors, who wero attracted to tho eccno by tho calls of tho birds which hod collected In tho trcca to i-rco on their plucky mato, Tho robin had a nost of Httlo ones In an npplo trco near tho garden. Whon tho anako wriggled acrons tho Held toward tho trco tho bird Bwooport down and attacked It vigorously with claws and bill, aiming Uo attacks at tho head of tho addor, which spat and hissed, but was soon put out of tho battlo. Not howovor, on tho first round, oa It gradually camo to utter tho robin had left It and began to move Tho bird discovered tho motion and flow again at tho snake, not leaving It until It was dead. Ronton Globo. |