Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — Fuss Finds Her Match. [ARTICLE]

Fuss Finds Her Match.

Most of my readers are probably aware of the intense affection the majority of birds have for their young. I was a witness of an incident illustrative of this fact. It seems a young robin, unable to fly, had accidentally fallen from the nest. A cat, watching for just such a chance, attempted to catch it, but the old birds flew around the feline and chattered with so much vehemence that her attention was for a moment attracted elsewhere. The young robin tumbled through the grass a short distance from its enemy, but was pounced upon again. The parent birds, seeing that talk was of no avail, proceeded to use their bills and claws with so much effect that the small bird was rescued, and, though badly wounded, was returned to its nest. Pussy showed the marks of the scrimmage for a day or two afterward. —Hartford Sunday Journal.