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VOLUTO VII.
THE REOSTER,
i s p u bli s hect in the
.110?tigh of A &Nam, Lehigh
County. , luery, Thursday
. 13-YIAIITGITSIIIWILTRTIIIE,.
A tslso per annum,iqyable in advnnce,and
$2 00 if not paid until ti•C end of the year. No
paper discontinued,untilaltarrearagesare paid
except at the option of the p prietor.
ArivanTrsestesra,malting n t more than one
square, will be inserted three Li s for one dollar
rind for every subsequent inset tic twentyfive
cents. Larger advertisements, ch ged in the
sameproportion. Those not exceedi ten lines
will be charged seventy-five cents, id those
malting six lines or less, three insertio for 60
cents.
WA liberal deduction will be made t those
who advertise by the year.
M"Office in Hamilton St.,one door .Xast
o/ the German Reformed Church, nca ly
opposite I he. , Friedensbot e Office."
New 111illimors (100 as
Mrs. A. S. Kaufman.
, ;•-:!l4 ‘ 4 F: • Respectfully invites
~..::, $ 1 . -t..
.4k. , :t7 --!' .I' . . the attention of the La-1
)
l 4:
.! ., ...e. - .17,::-:‘ , 1/./: . ;. dies of Allentown and its vi-
p ...-- ~),• .', .she
i ,i - .,
.cmity that has taken the' 1
kl . . east corner of ON i Ison'srtme,' I
I . i ''• .. ' No. 20, East Hamilton stre,l,
Allentown - ....near the' German Reformed
Chiaich, .direttlY.:opposi.te J. B. MosAr's,l
Apothecary 'store; .where.she has receii.o
_a_large..assortment oLnew And • \
Fashionable mimeo. Goods.
......
Her variety consists in phrt of French Lace
Btunde,Blonde Lace,. Fluted Luce, Embroi
dered Hair Tripoli, colored embroidered Bel
grades, English. Dunstables. - All kinds of
Casin Bonnets, Mourning bonnets, French,
and all kinds of A rtificials, Caps, Facecaps.
and all kinds ofßtbbons, &c. &c.
Repairing, shaping,. whitening and pres
sing after the latest fashion, and equal to
any city establisment, is always done at the
shortest possible notice.
Mrs. Kaufman, mattes it evident that her
stock of Bonnets, is of Om most fasionabie
selection, and prices correspondingly reason
able. She trusts that a generous public. ivill
extend to her a liberal patronage, for which
she will always feel grateful.
10 - Country Milliners will find it to their
advantage by giving her a call, us she *ill
sell to them ut a very low advance
April, 1:3
Wholesale Variety Store.
Win. S. Weil,
No. 39, WEST HANILTON STREET,
A.L;f4ENTOWN,
. .
Informshis friends and the public in gen
eral that he has lately removed his establish
ment to the three . , story LuiWing, on the
North side of West Hamilton street, No. t 39,
a few doors East of Hagenbuch's Hotel,
where he is at present opening, and will al
ways .keep . on hand, a large and beautiful
assortment .of new and
Fashionable Jewelry,
Violins, Strings Buttons of all de
scriptions, French and Do2nestic Suspen
ders, Whalebone, Combs of all kinds,
plain and ribbed Percusion
Linen and:Cotton Tapes, Hooks
and Eyes, Slay Bindings, La
ces, Edging, Bobinet,
Col
lars of alldescriptions, La
dies Dress Trimmings,
Knitting Pine, German
• Pins, Patent Thread, Nerd
les. Spool. Colton of different
make,' all binds of Panty Soaps,
and Perfumerif, liaz.ors and !laza:.
Straps, Pocket Knives, Scissors, Lead
Pencils, Slate Pencils, Britania ¢ best
Silver Plated Spoons, and Sewing Silks.
He also just received 100 cases of his
superior friction . Matches, which are so
extensively known thoughout this county and
which. he will sell as cheap if not cheaper
than they can be, bought elsewhere.
• The friOnds of Music will take notice that
he sells.MUsical,instruinents either by the
dozen or by, the Piece. „
Country 'Nfercharits mill bear in mind,•
that he will always keep on hand a large as
sortment of the above mentioned articles and
many more which are too, tedious to men
tion in this catalogue.
The above articles will be sold wholesale
at-prices• as cheap as they can be purchased
either in Philadelphia or. New. York, and to
nominee' his country friends of this fact it is
only riecessary,for them to call and examine
his stoelrOf goods and price them.
Mi..WEu,•hopes by punctual attendance
to business, and by adopting the motto, of
prefiti and•quick sales'.' he will se
em a liborq 'shay° of public patronage.
. •
WILLIAM S. WEIL.
Aprll.2o, 1853. ' ,
WANTED. ,
Timothy nay. Wheit,:ilire, Corn and
Oata, for which., the highest market , price
will be paid by
PRETZ, GUTH & CO,
May 4, 1858.. • ¶—Ow
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
poetical Elcpattatent.
They met—and none were nigh but deemed.
They met as friends, endeared of yore :
So calm each careless aspect seemed
With mutual greeting gladdening o'er.
Their hands were joined, as but to hold,
In' welcome grasp, each other near ;
And severing, left no blush that told
01 more than friendly pressure there.
They smiled—you would have thought the smile
But some kind impulse Irom the heart ;
Springing, spontaneous, thence, the while
Its passing pleasure to impart.
Thu spoke—theYe was no faltering word
That wavered from its proper tone ;
No-accent where a note was heard
That common parlance might not own.
They walked the garden, fresh with flowers ;
They gathered roses from their stem,
hey talked of birds, and shrubs, arid bowers
• nd only seemed to th nk of them.
An• yet, tune wits when either's looks,
I.*words, or smiles, or hands embraced ;
firers t xehacsr,ed, were sibyl books,
NA • hrro both their fondest wishes raced.
Dui thus it is that envious age
Denies to love all outward sign ;
Diojtiog, as 't were, the glowing page
..Where once he shone in every line,
At
Wa.
Th
lave still there 7—a hidden guest,
captive in some secret Celt ;
kraitor, trernhlttig in the breast,
hat dared nat . of existence ill 7
,love still there ? Oh, had he left
bps, the eyes, the cheek, ihe brow,
OI all\w, tell tale trails bereft—
Tnebeart his only refuge now I
• t
Say wa\te 'here
01 so' uw, jny,
Stript,llo\
In hopd,less ex
Or, is h. like that mystic fount
That hid its current deep in earth,
lint shone, u'hene'er it dared to mount,
right, as pure as at its birth 1
A Psalm of Life.
T IrTe not in idle jingle,
"Marriage is an empty dream !"
For the'vrl its dead that's single,
And gills are not what they seem
Life is real! life is earnest!
11—;3in
Sin'Ole - bssedoess a fib
"Nittn thou art, to man returnest," .
Has been sitolien of the rib.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow
Is our destined (.41 or way ;
r,tut to act, that finch, to. morrow
I , inds.us nearer marriage day
Lifeis long, and youth is fleeting,
And our hearts, {hough light and gay,
Still t like pleasant d}ming, are beating
I,o , lliling marches all the way.
In th world's broad field of battle,
In t ~
\ ‘,l
bivouac of life,
Be not ke dumb, driven cattle I
Trust no uture, howe'er pleasant,
Lei the loud Past bury it\ dead !
Act—act t the livtlig Press4o !
Heart wi tin and hope altAd !
Lives of malied folks reminiPus
We can liv%our lives as well,
And, depariin leave behind us
MOUS Zdeftlollo.
Tigerclifintlog in Ina&
- We extract hum an•Endieh book the fol.
lawirig account f the 'mode of killing tigers
practiced in van us parts of India
iv,
of killing tigers, practiced
by the eat vei, ct the, Wytutd district, de
serves Me*. When one of these animals
ie discovpred. theiveVert in which he lies is
inclosed,by a stromLnefisupported by bam
boos, of 4 Baffle:lent height to prevent hitilea
ping °vit. Li • All beirig'Prepared; the vil
lages, head d• by tpeir , priests, surround the
outside, oft e netoirmed,with leng spears;
and .provolf-ng the tiger .to attack them, they
meet him, is ho heigea, and pierce him
• through the appa ntly feeble but impasse.
ble barrier,,till he all& - '
A,, gel - 4104n ha Was . presedt - at one of
these scenes deem .es it as InOtjetereating,
(From .Living Age.)
?,??ad years of pain,
, ambition, pride,
this "fair domain,
he there to hide I
llLjlwu
Such e.xampks as Ault "WI." k
•
il
Such example, drat another
Wasting time t idle sport,
A forlorn, unmarried brother,
Seeing, sliall take heart and court
Let us, then{ be up and doing,
With a .eart on triumph set :
Still contri ing, still pursuing,
And eac one a husband get !
ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., MAY 11, 1853.
and in the highest degree.exciting ; for there
existed the appearance of imminent danger,
although in reality it was almost impossible
'I nts. -- The
net, loosely suspended, yielded to the bounds
made by the enraged anitind without break
ing, and he retired, bleeding and discourag
ed, from each attack.
Tigers have been speared, however, with
out such defence as that just described. On
different occasions they have been turned
out on race-courses, particularly at Benga
lore, and speared by officers and gentlemen
from horseback. There was an extremely
brave English off oo Jn.tha, who used,
single-handed an o rly with a spear,
to kill tigers in t oft a little Arab
horse.
.The metholiptirsued by this daring
horseman, was to gallop round the tiger in a
circle, gradually diminishing the distance
till he found himself within reach, when he
threw his spear with unerring' aim, and in
stantly wheeled off to avoid the charge of the
animal, in the event of its being only wound
ed.
Five brothers, roll fine, resolute young fel
lows, who lived at Shikarpoor, in the My
sore country, were in the habit of attacking
tigers when asleep and •gorged with food.
and destroying therm by a determined charge.
They ad vnriced in a body, each armed with
n long took spear, and, at a pre-concerted
Ullll7l, plunged their weapons at the same
niothent Into the sleeping brute. It could be
nitempted successfully only when the ani
mal was Mug gorged with food, in some
open plaCe, free from thick jungle and easy
of access, when all the men could get mind
him unperceived; for if he discovered his
assailants before the Wow was struck, fifty;
instead of five, would 1'6 , 6 li4.little chance
against him.
The natives. iniirfe , ' districts ffiake
use of variouS-devieeS.felltillingiig.irs, such
as poison, piifit'lls, and traps of gairieukli finis;
but these hardly came tinder the denomina
tion of lniiieg, and have been tr.:often de
scribed to require any particular notice here.
'The method of destroying tigers said to
he connnon in Persia and towards the north
of Idindostan, nppenrs reasonable and con
cordant with the genius of the p , opt,. This
device consists of a large semi-spherical cage
made of,sirong bamboos or other efficient
materials; woven together hut leaving inter
vals throughout of about three or four inches
broad. Under this cover, which is fastened
to the grotind by means of pickets, in some
places where tigers abound, a man provided
with two or thre e short strong spears, takes
post at night. Being accom pa by a dog
w,hich gives the alarm, or by a goat, which
by its agitation answers the saute purpose,
the adventurer wraps himself up in his quilt
and very composedly goes to sleep in lull
confidence of his safety. When a tiger
carves, and perhaps after smelling all round,
begins• to rear against the cage, the man
stabs him with one of the spears through'
the interstices of the wicker-work, and rarely
fails of destroying the tiger, which isordi
narilv .found dead at no great distance on
the following morning.
The most curious, and indeed the safest
method (except the poisoned arrow) is in
use in some • parts of the Nabob Vizier of
Oude's dominions. Thoug,lt it is probable
that many a smile will be excited by the
recital, yet as we have confidence in the fact
and do not precieve anything improbable
the matter, -we hesitate not to present -it to
our readers : The track of a tiger being as
certained, which, though not invariably the
same, may yet be known sufficiently for the
purpose, tlw peasants collect a quantity of
he leaves of the prauss, which are COIIIIIIOII
in most undetwoods, as they rorni the larger
portion of most jungles in the north of India.
The leaves arc smeared with a species of
birdlithe, made by bruising the berries of an
indigenous tree by no means scarce, but of
which we cannot at present cell to mind
the name; they are then strewed with the
gruten uppermost near to that opaque spot
to which it is understood the tiger usually
i resorts during t h at noontide heats. If by
chance the animal should tread on one of the
smeared leaves, his fate may be considered
as decided. He commences by shaking his
paw with the view to remove the adhesive
incumbrance ; but finding no relief. from that
expedient, he rubs the nuisance against his
face with the same intention, by which
means his eyes, ears, become aggluti
nated, and occusiecuttech uneasiness as to
cause him to roll, perhaps among many
.more of the smeared leaves, till at length he
becomes completely' enveloped .and is de
prived .of sight. In this -situation he may
be-compared ton man .who has been tarred
and feathered. The anxiety,produced by
this strange and' novel predicament seep dis
covers itself in dreadful hotvlings, which
serve to call:the watchful peasants, who in
this state find no difficulty in sheeting the
mottled object ofdetestatien.
The instinctive dread of man which is
iMpinnted-- in the nititire of every animal,
preventis even .the : blood-thirsty tiger from
melting him his. preys ,until accident .has
.once shown the brute howMferiar in bodily,
strength is man to the!anhoals on WhiT.ll he s
,uSually,feeAs. discovery once made;
and human flesh once tasted, the nature of
the Tiger appears to.be changol. Vtora the
day on which he first overcomes the lord of
the creation, he feels that his former dread
of man was groundless. It is easier far to
rind - the -bones-of-our feeble—f raffle-than -to
dislocate tie spine o an ox ;am tie tiger
finding this becomes a 7nan•calcr.. He now
deserts the forests and takes up his quarters
in the neighborhood of some village_;_ cattle
pass by unheeded, but their owners perish,
and the tiglir is then the most fearful of all
animals.
A nutn-eater generally becomes remarka
bly cunning, as will be seen by the follow
ing anecdote : Some years ago a tigress in
Kandish was the terror of the country,
which she haunted . like a destroying fiend.
She preyed entirely upon men, shifting her
quarters from village to village scerapidly as
to render it exceedingly difficult to mark her
down. 'l'r-day a man was carried off: every
corner in the neighborhood was tried in vain
—the enemy had decamped ; and next mor
ning another victim had disappeared from n
village many miles distant. Rewards were
offered by. Government for her destruction ;
they were doubled ; but such was the druid .
inspired by this tigress, whose cunning was
equalled only by her ferocity, that no one
would venture to attack her. Matters be
came worse ; whole villages were deserted;
people hardly dured to leave their houses ;
and day after day some family was left in
mourning. Of course the Kandish sports
men proceeded to beat up her quarters, as
soon as information. reached them. A chos
en band of 'Skeels were put upon her trial,
and for four days followed it incessantly
over burning sands before they could sur
round. her—so watchful. had she fiecome in
.gparding against surprise—but what will
riot Bheels accomplish !, On the fourth day
the.tiveleome intedligence reached head-q uar
teas that thisfathous tigress was nt laSt hem•
toed into a.stnall thicket. Several sports
men, accompanied by some good elephants,
were soon : MtAlie ground. Many arrived on
horseback, and one of them, in crossing a
small ravine leading into thq;cover, was
charged by the tigress and escaped only by
his horse's speed. She was already on the
alert, arid no time waste be log. An ele
phant wits mounted, and with a Bheel Wal
kieg by his side to track, proceeded into the
cover. The trial was very distinct, and after
leading them in a circuitous direction round
the jungle, returned to the very spot were
they had first taken it up. Here all further
trace was lost, and even the Bheel was at
fault. A cast was made without success,
ar,d on trying back they were astonished
byydiseovering die first track of a tiger over
that of the elephant. This was quite un
accountable. Again ti)), made a circuit of
this jungle, and again the mysterious font
print folloived, but still no tiger appeared.
They linked, uncertain how to proveed.—
The Biwel had just left the elephant's side,
and. the gentleman who was in the howdah
had turned to look behind him, when, to his
utter amazement, he encountered the gaze
of the crafty old devil of a tigress, crouching
clime under the elephant's crupper, and in
tently eyeing the Bheel, aa if watching her
opportunity to spring upon hint the moment
he exposed himself by leaving the cover of
the howdah. She had all along been fol
lowing in the footsteps of the elephant,
which accounted for the mysterious double
trial, and appeared bent upon carrying off
the Bheel, as if aware that without the aid
of his sagacity the weapons of the sportsmen
would be of little avail. The hour was come
at last. The gentleman in The howdah seizi
ed the favorable moment, and a bttll directly
in the belly laid her mortally wounded upon
the spot. The rest of the party closing in
upon the wounded brute, diSpatched her
with their guns in a very skirt time.
A ludicrous anecdote is told by an old
Kandish sportsman. We will relate it in
his own words : • .
•
"We were closing in upon a wounded
tiger, whose hind. lug was broken. Soule
Bneels who ran up the trail to a patch of
high grass, were drawing back now that their
game was found, when the brute started up
behind the elephant and charged the nearest
man—a little hairy, bandy-legged, square
built oddity, more like a satyr than a human
being. Away Sprung the Bheel for the near
est tree, with the wounded tiger roaring at
his haunches, 'By the Prophet, sir, it would
have done your heart good to see the springs
the active little sinner made. Just in time
he reached the tree, and scrambled into a
branch hardly out of reach. There he sat,
crouched up into the smallest 'possible Om
pass, expecting every' moment to be among
the Heeds. The tiger made several' des
perate eflorts to reach him, but the broken
aind leg falling, he dropped back exhausted.
It was now the Bheel's turn. He saw that
he was safe, and accordingly commenced a
philippic against the father arid mother, sis
ters, aunts, nieces and children of his help
less enemy, who sat with glaring eyeballs
fixed on his contemptible .little reviler, and
roaring as if.hia heart would brake with rage.
As the excited orator-, warmed by his own
eloquence, he began' skipping from.. branch
to.branCh, grinning and ,chattering with the
emptuntis pf an .enraged. baboon, pouring out
nooggint _of the mest.,foil . abase, and.attribii.
Halite the tiger's. family goneral, and his
fellatio relatives in particular, every crime
and atrocity that ever was or ever will be
committed. Occasionally he varied his in
sults by roaring in imitation of the tiger,
and at- last,-when- fairly- exhausted,. he_lean-.
edWird - 1111 - he appeared — WiThin grasp of
the enraged animal, and ended this inimita
ble scene. by spitting in his face. So very
absurd .was the whole farce,. that wo who
were at first shoving up the elephant, in
alarm for the safety of our little hairy friend
ended by laughing till our sides ached ; and
it was not without reluctance that we put an
end to the scene by firing a death volley."
The habitof shooting tigers on foot is at
tended with so much danger that few ex
perienced sportsmen will' ever indulge in it:
those who do so are pretty sure, sooner or
later, to come to an untimely end. The ten
acity of life so remarkable in tigers, in com
mon with all animals of the cat kind, is suf
ficient to render tiger shooting on foots most
hazardous attempt. For, ever allowing
that a man has sufficient confidence in his
own nerve to permit a tiger' to approach
quite close; in the certainty of hitting him
between the eyes—yet he is still far from
safe. Any old sportsnian can assure him
that a ball through the head is not certain to
stop a tiger. It will sometimes run a con : -
siderable distance, and even charge the ele
phant, after receiving a ball in the forehead..
Fatal often occur from men care
lessly approaching a fallen tiger. Stitne,
years ago a Madras sepoy wcs killed while
measuring a tiger which had fallen and:was
apparently dead: the expiring brute struck
at him and fractured his skull by one blow
of his tremendnus paw. An officer in the
Madras army was also struck dead by a
dying tiger under precisely similar circum-
stances. There'was an instance of alitior ,
fellow rendered a cripple for life in the same
way. He, with his father—nn old shikaree
—fired from a tree at a tiger, which to all
appearance fell dead. The young man,
contrary to his father's earnest entreaties,
leaped down and applied his match to the
tiger's whiskers for the purpose of singeing
them off. The tiger turned upon him, and
seizing him by the thigh, held him fast till
forced by death to relax the gripe. Some
months after the accident occurred, the lad
was walking with a crutch ; the limb was
contracted and wasted to the bone, without
any prospect of its ever improving.
In proof, of the extraordinary muscular
power which a tiger can exert, two remark
able instance may be quoted :
bullock was killed by a ti g er near an
encampment,-on the banks of th e Jumboo
dra, in It field surrounded by a hedge of
prickly bear, about six feet in height. The
carcass of the bull, still warm, was observed
by one of the props was tarried intelligence
to the tents. ,Within two hours the officers
were on the spot, and to their astonishment
found the carcass of the bull, partly devour
ed, on the outside of the fence. Not a twig
in the -hedge was broken, and the only clue
to account for this apparent mystery, was
the deeply impressed footprints of a large
tiger on either side of the hedge, from which
it appeared that he must have sprung over
the harrier with the prey in his jaws. The
confirmation afforded by palpable traces to
the peon's assertion that the bullock was,
killed within the enclosure, and the impos
sibility of the carcass having sheen removed
in any other way, alone convinced the offi
cers of the fact ; otherwise they could not
have believed that an animal weighing
under (300Ibs. could have exerted such pro
digious strength. Any one, however, who
has examined the anatomical structure of
the tiger will readily believe.the extraordi
nary power he is capaslo of exerting. His
foreleg is the most perfect and beautiful
piece of mechanism that can be conceived,
supported by a bone as hard and compact
as ivory,"and displaying a mass of sinew
and muscle to be found only in this most for
midable weapon.of the most agile and de
structive of all animals. His jaws, neck and
shoulders evince a corresponding degree of
strength." •
The other instance'to which we have al
luded was as follows.
Four fine oxen, harnessed in the same
team, were destroyed by a tiger while, their
owner was driving them before the plough.
Lie described, their death as havingleen the
work of a (eh , seconds. When he was in
the act of turning his cattle at the end of a
furrow, a tiger sprang from some neighbor
ing brushwood:on the lending bullock;,brolce
his neck by a single wrench, and before.the
other terrified animals could disengage them:
selves, all were destroyed in the same man
ner. The, man tied to a neighbOring tree,
from whence he saw the monster 'finish his
work of death, and then trot back into the
jungle without touching the carcasses, as if
he had dime it froat_mere love or slaughter,
and not to acidify the cravings of hunger.--
One cif - the bullock's had been throWn back
with such violence that horns Were dri
ven into the . ' ground a'Consiaimable depth. 7
The", , carcass
,exhibited no marki of violence
except the. punctures of .five Claws on each
side pf the head, and Mood Slo w ing I rom ,the
nostrils; .but .the skull was so votapletely
smashed That the •"'
sure of the hand; like
NUMBER 321
Curious History of a Tame Eagle.
On the gth of April 1849, the inhabitants•
of Westminster (a parish in London) beheld
with - varied - . feelin l s an- omen - sithich -the •
interprets each according to his own views.,
A magnificent eagle suddenly appearedsailt .
ing over the towers of Westminster Abbey,
and _after perfortning_ . .numeroils gyrations
was seen to, perch upon one . of thepinnacles
a
of the abbey. Ele formed most striking
object, and a crowd speedilircolleoted
hold this unusualspecniele. After. ga2ing
about him for a time, he - rose and began as
cending by successive circles tO an immense
height, and then floated off to the north of
London,'oCcasionally giving a gentle flap
with his wings. but otherwise appearing to.
sail away to the clouds, among . which ha,
wits ultimately lost. Whence came this
royal bird, and whither did hq:Ati l iktid 'his
way ? Ills history:was as folloWit,
in 1848 a whitetailed sea-eagle was-.brought,
to London in ti . ; . cottiEttiearner, cooped up
in a orib4i.ied,;for wine: betties, and presen
ting ajneiknai3litnehOly and forlorn appear.
kind-hearted gentleman seeing
him Ent this wore' plight, look pity on him,
purchased him, and took him to Oxford, he
being';duly labeled 'at the Great Western
Station, "Passenger's Luggage." .By the
care of;his now master; Mr. Francis Buck
land, the bird soon regained his natural noble
aspect, delighting especially to dip and Wash,
-in a pan of water, then sitting on his perch
with his magnificent wings extended,to their
full extent, basking in the sun, his head al
ways turned towards that luminary, whose:
glare he did not mind. A few nights after
his .arrival nt his new abode, the whole,
hckuse was aroused by cries ns of a child in.
Mortal agony. The night was intensely
dark, but at length the baldest of the family
ventured out to see what wits the matter.—
In the middle of the grass plot was the eagle,'
who had evidently a victim over which he
was cowering with outspread wings, croak
ing a hoarse defiance to the intruder upon
his nocturnal banquet. On lights being
brought, he hopped off with his prey in one
claw to a dark corner, where he was left to,
enjoy it in peace, as it was evidently-not an
infant rustic from the neighboring village,.
as at first feared, The mystery was not,
however, cleared up for three days, when a
large lump of hedgehog's bristles and bones,:
rejected by the bird, at once explained- the
nature of his 'meal.. flu had doubtless.
caught the unlucky hedge-pig (as it is.callect
in Oxfordshire) when on his rounds in 'search
of food, and in spite of his formidable armor
of bristles, had managed to.unceil him with.
his sharp bill and to devour-him,. Row the,
prickles found their way down his throat, is •
best known to himself . ; but we should think
it must have been rather a stimulating feast:.
This eagle was with good reason the ter
ror of all the other pets of the house : On
one occasion he pursued a little black and,
tan terrier, hopping with fearful jumps, as
listed by his wings, which, happily fOr the -
affrighted dog, had been recently clipped..
'Fo this the little favorite owed his life, as he.
crept through a hedge which his assailant
could not fly over ; but it was n very near
thing ; and if the dog's. tail had not been.
between his legs,. it would cortainlY have
been seized by the claw which was thrust
after him just as he bolted through the bri
ars. Less fortunate was - a bcinutiful little
-
kitten, the pet. of the nursery-41. feiv tufts of,
fur-alone marking' the depository'of her're
mains. Several guinea pigs and sundry
cats too paid the debt of nature through his .
means ; but a sad less Was that of a jackdaw
of remarkable -colloquial . powers and un
bounded assurance, who rashly .paying.: a
visit of a friendly nature •to the engle,. was ;
instantly devoured. Master . Jacko, -, the,
monkey, on one occasion only saved his.
dear life by swiftness of foot, getting on. the.
branch of a tree just as.the eagle came. rush
ing to its foot with outspread wings anttopen::
beak. The legend is,,that beko becaniei v
rather suddenly gray, after this:adventure ;
but perhaps the matter-is open. to doubt.:
One fine summer morning the window of
the breakfast room was thrown open previ;
ous to the appearance of the family. .on,
the table was placed .a ham iemarkable
flavor and general popularity, fully meriting,'
the high encomiums which had been pasired;•,
upon it the previous day, Thei rustling Or:,
female garments was heard 7 =tbe breakfast
room door opened, arid —loft, gracious ! what
sight.! The eagle, perched upon the, hrtm,,
was tearing away at-it with unbounded air l,
petite, his talons. firmly fixed in the . rich'
deep fat. Pin.ding himself distuKded he
endeavored, to fly off with the prize, and:,
made a sad clatter with it among the. Cups : ,
and'saucers : finding, hoWever, 'that it was
two heavylor him, he suddenly, dropped
on t/te rich earßet, scnatched up ti cold par
tridge nod made a hasty exit thiough the:
window, well satis fi ed with ,his foraging, ex-
pedition. The ham, however, was left
too deplorable tratate to bear description.
The eagle was afterwardtitaken to tendon
and placed in a court-yard near Westmiti`
titer' Abbey. wh. ,` e.' thsoli
majest
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