AND TURKEY. 



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fore clipped the Hawk's wings, cut off his talons, and 

 fixing a cork on his bill, threw him down among the 

 brood-hens. Imagination cannot paint the scene that 

 ensued; the expressions that fear, rage, and revenge 

 inspired, were new, or at least such as had been unno- 

 ticed before : the exasperated matrons upbraided, they 

 execrated, they insulted, they triumphed. In a word, 

 they never desisted from buffetting their adversary till 

 they had torn him in a hundred pieces." 



