Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — Fed by Hawks. [ARTICLE]

Fed by Hawks.

A group of men in a Washington hotel the other night were talking about lazy people, when one told an anecdote that broke up the meeting. The relator, observes the Star, said that a family of ills acquaintance living in southern Indiana subsist upon tish entirely. A stream runs through the little farm upon which they reside, and tish hawks are plentiful. The boys of the household keep close watch for fishhawk nests, and catch the birds before they are able to fly. Then these chicks are raised in a happy-go-lucky sort of way until the older birds of the flock train them how'to tish. The hawks are let loose and the boys lay in the grass by the side of the stream watching them. When a hawk catches a tish, the prey is taken from the bird, which, however, is allowed to eat all it wants when the day’s fishing is over. They have enough howks to keep fish on hand sufficient to supply them with food, and to sell a few, by which their scant clothing can be replenished. Not one of the family ever attempts work of any kind, and they are supported entirely by the bawks.