Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 54
andnot a sound was heard or a parent hawkseen. Then I tried to stir up the young, butwithout effect. They looked at us sharply, butmade no move and uttered no cry. A smallertree grew alongside the pine that held the nest.Up this I climbed till within probably twenty-five feet of the suspicious… … SPARROW-HAWK EATING A GRASSHOPPER. air. But the wings of one of them could notlong sustain him, and he came to the groundwithin twenty yards of the foot of the tree. Aswe approached him his position of defense wasstriking — wings half spread, beak open, onetalon raised, and a look of defiance in…
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