THE HEN HAWK DECEIVED by Christian Advocate

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 7, 1892

THE HEN HAWK DECEIVED.

By Christian Advocate

HERE is an account of how a hen hawk thought he had stolen a fine wood duck, but did not find it very good eating: George Boyd has a collection of birds, stuffed and mounted as natural as life. He was looking them over a few days ago to see that moths were not injuring them, and left one, a fine specimen of a wood duck, standing in his back yard while he carried some others into the house. Just as he was coming out of the door again a hen hawk swooped down, pounced on the stuffed duck, and bore it away in its talons. The hawk lit on the limb of a dead tree a hundred yards from the house, and proceeded to sample his supposed prize. He struck his bill into the duck's breast just once, and then dropped it as if it had been red hot, and took wing at railroad speed away from the place. He didn't stop to do any more hunting around that locality, although he had been circling thereabout for weeks, but kept right on going west until he disappeared in the blue distance, and he hasn't been seen since. But he spoiled the stuffed wood duck.