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Show Hawk's Fight for Young. When Christian Lehnels, superln- , tendent of the Egg Harbor cemetery, entered the grounds recently he heard a noise In one of the lots surrounded by cedars. Investigating, he was p'tacked by n ' large chicken hawk, which was feeding feed-ing five young ones. Willi no weapons to protect himself, I-ehmls was compelled com-pelled to .flee, but lie can to town and got his gun. When he returned the hawk and Its young had disappeared. Later In tho afternoon he again came across the hawk family, and the old bird charged him again, but this time he was prepared and killed It. The hawk was a lar(,e specimen, measuring four feet across the wings. Egg Harbor City Correspondence Philadelphia Record. |