Show s or OF mus BIRDS A hawk that undertook T too oo 00 biff a contract ill III idy war ton alemy fr for min anti nil mr bir ll k dourly for or III sparta L igat dt lani 0 y ii owl iriv vi from arout its it I 1 ech 11 ll tji by h alding swall wil ono one day this summer writes the new N york ork stills scranton fc ila ii correspond out ont a bla bis halvic hak darted down into IA helbert Ithol bei t IV Iu Iv arcos arces barnyard barn yard up in herrick township seized bl izod 4 dougi old liou hell flow across the road load with hor her anti and don behind arill tilfen benco co biddy was as too heavy doiy for tho hawk to sail away vitt etli anti and alio to the nil full extent kontof of her in r till liivik power potter while winded captor was aa pinning tier lier to the ground tile hawk appeared to know that its actions were cro being watched matched for every ta fow seconds it raised its licad head and peeped cotmon tile ralls caward the house cipro v mr pearce who had sot got lih illi lillo tile moment tile hen thief boliand tile fence as to geta appt a rood good slot shot it at it tile the old lion hen squawked along fluttered for nil all she iva as billi to free fieo herself dorholt from tho the li aka big ea aws and struggled lit in tile griss grass while lillo tho hawk bak hold her down IV ith apparent vase case glanced through gli tile tho forice Toino and seemed to ho bo afraid to login ti amour tier hor so noir near tile tho firm farin buildings or tuluo lea tho link hawk made tit an effort to rise ilso with alth Us its noisy bots nots proy prey but tile old hens weight va evidently several ounces more than it had been used to handling and isain again it was as forced to settle down don mr dorco had li id drawn a boal boad on oil tile tho spot in ili tho the celivo chero tile tho bacic was anti nd tile not next time it stuck banck up tip its lead head antl and litween tho the raili lie ho pulled tile tho trigger gor for lora a moment thoro was A lively fluttering behina tho the fence and pretty soon hoon tile he lien dashed into tho the road load with alli tier wings spread out anil and went li Lipins squawkIng and anol king toward tho the barn bir artl as ai though she was seared scared half to death tho w visible isible front chero mr fail banged liang cil away at it ind find lie 10 rin ran to abo fence and looked over oer the big biff blid lay sprawled out as lead dead as it a stono itono find alien mr air icearco examined it lio to found that hla his bullet had 1 cut tile hadlis brain out as nicely as a could have hao done work woric early in ili tile spring partner lowis lewis L harleys hanleys Han Ifan leys boys trapped a largo malo horned owl on their fathers place in iocono township tho bird was a fighter whenever any ono one wont near him hini and tile boys wanted to conino alln in a cago cage mr hanley lot let them and lie ho turned tho the owl loose in ono 0 of f tits ills barns where there were lots lota of rats and mice the owl soon became bcd to tile barn ind ato enough rats to kocib him fat and acted wt a it lio enjoy I 1 lits his now aboda very ry much profit fruin ills his porch on oli a loam beam the owl watched tor for game and whan ho civer a rat od itself on oil tile tho ot of the haymow mow lio to dropped down as light and as noiseless as a feather and never missed in ills claws out tile the rodents lodonia at such it ft rapid rato rate that within althin a I 1 n anth tile remainder of thelt tool took fright flight ut tit liia ills murderous habits and led fled to another barn OH alio opposite side of tho the yard mr bailley then transferred the owl to the other barn choro lio lie slow tile rats lata lit in tho the same way after aello alio farmer left tho the barn doors 0 open a deal of tile tho time but tile tho owl never triad erkd to fly away aay to his old homola homo in the woods to lie bo entirely it contented with tile tho living ho he was getting without an cibort at about this timo time tho swallows arrived train from the south and started to fix up their old to tho the peak of the barn where hero tile the rafters camo came together the owl was moping on bonono onono one of tho the lower beams when whan tile s swallows allows began to got ready to raise families but during tile day lie ho flew to a 1 higher perch anti and took anal a nap in ili a bhart time the swallows aught sight bight of tho the ble bil bird as ho he sat only n few feet below one of their nests and no sooner had thoy they spied him hill than they began to give vent to noisy isy protests against lits his remaining thoro thero lre presently tile whole colony was in an uproar over tho silent and mo me n owl every swallow in it flow back and forth from ono one end of tile the barn to the other darted past tho the owl at celoso Is as they could without touching him and mado made tho the barn ring with their squalls of anger the 1 ho ov owl 1 t seem scorn to know what all t tho he fuss and flurry was about but tho pugnacious swallows copt up such a racket and hammari d him so haril hard that ho finally camo came to the conclusion that they want him there tharo and so lie ho dropped to a lower beam and clung to it that paci flea afew a tov of tho the swallows but tho the majority continued to sail past ills his load head and to tell him that ho had better clou clear out of tho the barn entirely until tho the owl sought a still lower perch where lie ho s st t and blinked at ills his loudmouthed oaid assailants this ono one sided warfare was kept up for three days mr danloy saw that thero there would bo be no icaco for tho swallows so long as ai tho the obnoxious owl ire IP in tho the barn and so ho he baug caught lit tho the big bird and put him in a cago cage As soon as s tho the owl was out of sight tho swallows sn allow quieted down resumed their nang and were cro as happy as aa could lie ila mr hanley has h is kept tho the owl cag il if up p all summer suin mci but lit as soon aitho as tho smal lowa iowa sail away to tho the south lie will lot liim him liao have tho the freedom of tho the barn once more |