Show A cat kills a hawk A lockhaven pa dispatch of dec D e says an imme immens 4 cr 1 awk which has baa for some days clays been t trying byln in fit vain lor for a chance to swoop down on simon clays poultry yard and capture a chicken reso liked to make a dinner on something be belonging lAging to clay and pounced spott a maltese cat that was bunning itsell it in the back yard the hawk lifted the cat easily enough and was moving away when the cat recovered from its surprise and began to squirm and claw leathers feathers began to tumble out of the baak la in showers and the big bird which had reached a height of feet with its unusual prey seeing that it had bad caught a tartar loosed its talons and the cat dropped toward the earth like a plumb bob the hawk must have been hungry tor for it swooped down on the cat sud and seized it again before it reached edthe the ground gnat was a good thing for the cat for if it had struck the earth at the rate it was going all nine of its lives would have gone out ont at once but this second capture was bad tor for the hawk he grabbed the cat near the ta iland had hardly recovered him hit in self belt sufficiently to resume his hie upward right flight when the cat filled with f fury ary twisted around and reached for the hawk with her claws she caught the big birds throat in her teeth and set the claws of alter fore feet deep in the Ie AtherA his bis neck that was the end of the fight the hawk baw K pounded and flopped with his bis great wings but it was of no use his wind was effectually shut off and he be fluttered flustered to the ground the cat and by the time the two reached the earth the big bird was in his last gasp the interesting and novel contest in midair was witnessed by several persons and abeta they reached the spot where the combatants came down the cat sat by the side of its vanquished toe foe complacently licking the wounds the hawks talons had bad made which were deep but not serious |