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 beforo : the exasperated matrons upbraided, they 
execrated, they insulted, they triumphed. In a word, 
they never desisted from buffetting their adversary till 
they had tom him in a hundred pieces.” 
