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Show Men Battle with Bird. Three men engaged in a terrific battle bat-tle with a giant blue heron recently The men, Charles Parker, Bryan O'Donnell and James O'Donnell, won the fight, but not until the heron had driven them off three times and torn their clothing into shreds with its powerful wings and beak. But for the fact that the bird was hobbled by a heavy steel trap into which it had stepped while seeking a dinner in the pond of the Koanak goldfish gold-fish hatchery near the town, the men's injuries might have amounted to more than scratches. The bird was able to spring several feet into the air despite the trap dangling to its leg, and not until Parker, armed with a ten-foot pole, got near enough to the bird to break its neck with a blow of the stick, did the battle come to an end. The crane measured six feet two inches from tip to tip of ns wings i Burlington (X.J.) Cor. isew York World. |