THE HAWK AND EAGLE FAMILY 193 
time to choose, too. If there is one of a kind he 
particularly likes, he goes for that one. 
Fish hawks, like other birds, are very fond of 
their little ones. A gentleman who had been 
traveling in the West told me this little story. 
He, with a party who were wandering over a 
wild part of the country, accidentally set fire to 
a bit of woods on the shore of Lake Superior. 
On one of the trees was a fish hawk’s nest with 
young birds. As soon as the smoke began to 
spread, the old birds grew uneasy, and circled 
about their tree, going often to the nest. 
The men who had done the mischief, and 
who had then taken to their boat, were noting 
the spread of the fire. They watched the birds 
to see what they would do. When the fire at 
last reached their tree, the loving parents turned 
with one accord, plunged down into the nest, 
and all perished together. They could easily 
have saved themselves, but they could not desert 
their nestlings. 
