YOUNG HAWK. 
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the Platte— the egg was given to the kindly care 
of a setting hen, which had the dubious satisfac- 
tion of ending happily the incubation of one of 
her worst enemies. 
The one already hatched Mrs. Maxwell dared 
not trust to her keeping, lest she should recog- 
nize in its voice, or in some other way, its lineage, 
and kill it as it slept. So she took upon herself 
the maternal responsibility of supplying its slum- 
bers with needed warmth and covering. 
Both birds reached Boulder in safety the next 
day, where they were fed and cuddled, and made 
happy until their robes of snowy-white down 
were of the most desirable length, when a little 
chloroform induced them to stop growing. A 
nest, like the one they occupied in their native 
tree, was procured. They were stuffed, and placed 
in it, with their little mouths open and their necks 
stretched up toward their mother, which, with a 
rabbit in her talons, was suspended over them. 
INURING the latter part of this summer, excur- 
0^5 sion parties for pleasure were often formed 
to visit various points of interest. 
Don’t let any one innocently imagine these 
were basket picnics, where everybody rode out 
in fresh dresses and blue ribbons at nine in the 
