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Show Hawk Takes Prey Into the Parlor Arriving home one afternoon after-noon last week, Mrs. Lewis B. Cliilds found that her home had been broken Into via a front glass window. Investigating further, she found the victim of the fiendish fiend-ish intruder, a half-eaten pigeon on the floor, and the unwelcomed tresspasser, a chicken hawk, tangled in the window curtains. The hawk had tried to escape es-cape after killing his prey and eating his fill only to be caught in his own trap. It was lucky for the Child's family that the curtains held as several other windows could have been broken in the foul eater's efforts to escape. However, the curtains cur-tains and window blinds were badly damaged by the intruder. He was taken alive by ' means of a fish net and given giv-en to a friend who planned to train him and perhaps teach him the folly of following fol-lowing a pigeon into the parlor. The peregrine falcon (better (bet-ter known as a foul-eating j hawk) is the swiftest bird in the air and like a bolt from the blue, he can attain a speed of 200 miles per ' hour when making a vertical dive on his prey. |