on grasshoppers is on par with their 
hawk shooting. A pair of pigeon hawks 
attempt to sneak over Jim’s head. He 
doubles so quickly on them that the re- 
ports sound almost as one, while Al 
shoots both dead birds over before they 
touch the ground. A lull while pipes 
and chews are renewed; then as the 
flight reaches its peak the guns “boom” 
and “whang” all up and down the line; 
it’s like a picture of the “Battle of 
Lexington.” 
GRE of the woods springs a robin 
with a hawk in swift pursuit. The 
robin darts here and there uttering 
shrill cries, then flies straight toward 
the line of men as though for protec- 
tion. “Poor little devil,’ mutters one 
of the men, “I’ll fix that cuss if I can 
get him without getting the robin, too.” 
The robin drops suddenly and the hawk 
slides above him only to turn again, 
but too late, and the man grunts with 
satisfaction as he blows through the 
empty barrel preparatory to inserting 
a new shell. 
My neighbor downs a_ red-tailed 
hawk, breaking its wing. He inadver- 
tently picks up the wounded bird which 
in turn sheaths its talons in the man’s 
wrist. No, there is no letting go, and 
the man finally pulls a knife from his 
pocket, opens the blade with his teeth 
and runs it through the hawk’s neck; 
the man swears softly and wipes the 
blood away. I saw this happen. 
LN “CHICKEN” hawk is just over my 
head; it’s a long long shot, but I 
have lots of shells. They are easy to 
hit and I get him exactly right. You 
might think I missed that fellow, but 
watch him a moment. Notice that he 
hasn’t moved a wing since I fired. Held 
up by the wind and with wings out- 
spread he scales some fifty yards or 
more. Now you will notice that his 
wings are drawing in to his sides. 
There he goes, down, down ever so 
slowly at first, then he pitches forward 
as his wings lose their last ounce of 
resistance; the bird has been dead for 
the last thirty seconds; it is an old trick 
with them. Sometimes they retain a 
spark of life until able to alight on a 
tree-limb where they take a death grip 
with their talons and have been found 
later clinging to the limb, though quite 
dead. One old hawk shooter told me 
that he found the skeleton of a bird 
which he took to be a hawk, sitting in 
an upright position on a limb, its talons 
firmly imbedded in the bark. 
I understand that some “hen” hawks 
are “portected.” They have got to be 
mighty well protected and with a coat 
of armor whenever they get within 
seventy-five yards or less of my gun. 
As I remarked before: a hawk is al- 
ways a hawk to me, and the only good 
one is a dead one. I always shoot and 
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