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Show Bees and Sparrows Fight for Tree. A fight between a half dozen English Eng-lish sparrows and a swarm of bees for the possession of an old tree on the lawn of the Serrlll house, Main street, was witnessed by a number of Interested Inter-ested spectators, says a Philadelphia correspondent. The colony of bees swarmed around the tree and discovering discov-ering a hole about 40 feet from 'the ground flew In. The first of the army, which filled the air like a miniature cloud, had hardly entered the hole before be-fore the sparrows came out ruffling their neck feathers and chattering with anger. There were six sparrows living In the tree and for five minutes they put up a gallant fight for' the possession of their home, but the bees were too much for them and after a time thej slowly drew off, fighting to the last |