Show STRONG OF WING birds are able to inglet inflict quite serious injuries even upon man there axe are a 11 good many birds whose strength of wing is sufficient to strike pretty hard bard blows s capable of bewildering a man if several of the birds attacked him at once some birds depend on their wings ing s as weapons to be used us ed in the duels for sweethearts forest and st stream told some years year ago go about an owl whose wing was broken by a dove it had sought to capture and make a meal of A correspondent of the Natio national nl Drug druggist git tells of his first surgical case in the state of A market hunter on swan lake near shawnee village pillage plantation was hunting huntin I 1 g at night with a light when a b band nd of swans bewildered by the fire came flying that way the hunter who was in a little pirogue threw up his arms to save his head and the left one was wa struck by the wing of a bird and both the ulna and the radius of his forearm were broken the sun recently told of a port jervis farmer who was knocked from a tree by a flight of wild geese during a fog and forest and stream has several times in the past 20 years yea told about men who were dazed by birds flying against their heads Par partridges ridges ruffed grouse being the principal pal offenders |