The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 55
w not ahawk from a hernshaw, as Hamlet says, wasregarded as ignorant indeed. The favorite timefor the sport was when the herons were passingfrom the heronry to the ponds after food, orupon their return in the evening, especially if theherons had to fly against the wind. When a couple of hawks were… … FIG. 7. MARSH-HAWK. duck-hawk. Though pressing forward for dearlife, the ducks outcries told of its distress, andit evidently felt that escape was impossible. Thegreater danger blinded it to the lesser, —or wasit sagacity that prompted it to fly straight to me?At all events, its trust in man saved…
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