A Hawk Among Hens

Gilbert White tella a most dramatic story of a neighbor who hiul lost mol dl bis chickeu by a Bparrow-hawk that carne gliding down between a faggot pile and the end of lii house, to the place where bis coops stood. Tlie owner, vexed to see liis flock diminiehing, hung a net betweeu the pile and the house, into whicli the bird dahed and was entangled. The gentlemfll' resentment suggested a fit retaliation; lie, thereforo, clipped the hawk's wings, cut oft lus talons, and, flxing a cork on lus bill, tiirew him down among the brood-hens. imaKination," Büys Mr. White. " eannot paiiit the scène that ensued; the expressions that fear, rage and revengo iuspired were new, or at least such iw luul been unnotieed before; the exasperated matrona ttpbraided, they exeorated, they inKiütfd, they triumphed. In a word, they never desisted from bnlVetiníí thfir adveraarv till they had torn him in a