Coalville Times | 1897-03-05 | Page 3 | In Defense of Their Young

In IlrfMt ol Tlirlr anng The London Field told a whIle ago about a rabbit that pursued a weasel which bad captured Dad of her young Ion with ineli vigor aa to cause the wniMl 1 to drop the youngster 1110 rabbit It a timid creature nasally hut no mo ii than th partridge traIts il aiouiiiti i found I I In ill Ilia eastern nates The fiuuil partridge baa ofl n put boys to hurried flight by aitacklnc tbem when they hate mnleiled her blood When an rig banter climbs thus tree I III bleb a kingbird has a nest ho Is at once attacked by the birds who ille at him at full speed < < with their sharp bills pointed ahead Whole flocks of ornwi Hy to the protection of a neat Hint has bn dliturb l by lint or beast Even Ihn gun of n mnn will not tend ihem far away as undr ordinary or-dinary clreumilnnc A doe will strlkn n man with her sharp hoof should he happen to iiirprlio her and her fawn She will battle long and ardently ar-dently to save her young from a pair nf oagiua and tbo fox nee from here from a dog