A Tragedy In Mid-air

The weazel is a dainty and luxurlous llver, in his way, says the Houston Post. He steals the freshest eggs, selects the tenderest chickena of the brood, and wlll sometimes kill several for a single meal, sucking the warm blood and eating only a small portion of the flesh. He is not only sly and cunning, but remark&bïy courageous. He will often attack an enemy much larger and stronger than himself, and he does not lose his wits even in imminent peril. This heroic quality is sometimes strikingly evinced. Two farmers in Titus County, Texas, were eating their midday meal, when they noticed a large hawk circling in the sky overhead. He was gradually narrowing his circles while approaching the ground, and it was parent that he would soon drop upon his victim. The men looked about cautiously, without movement or noise, and presently discovered a weasel stretched out upon the warm side of a log, not far away, probably sunning himself after a long morning's sleep, for thé weasel does hls sleeping In the daytime and his work at üight. Bilt the weasel quletly blinked at the sun, either unconscious of the danger or indiffeent to it. The farmera had just made this discovery when the hawk eam gliding down, swift as an arrow, seizeü the weazel In his powerful talons ard rose agaln alomst perpendicularly. All seemed at an end for that weasel. Soon, however, the movements of the great bird became strange and unnatural. His wings t.wired rapidly and convulsively, as if maV.ing a great effort to sustain flight, íáen he began to sink, slowly till fina'ly he feil straight like a plummet to the gvound - dead! From under the outstretched wings crept the weasel, apparertly unharmed. What had happened? The weasel had quickly stretched h:s long supple neck under the hawk's wing, stuck his teeth into a vital part and sucked out the life blood. The muscles of the hawk relaxed as the blood was rapidly drained. There was a last desperate effort at flight; trie wings flapped uselessly in the tir, f.n.i the heaviness,of death brought h'.ra gwlitly to the ground, very near the spot where the weasel had been basking in the sun.