Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — Rapine From Above, [ARTICLE]

Rapine From Above,

To see murder and rapine in pure perfection one has only to visit some of the more solitary shores in the autumn when the tide is coming in and watch the fish hawks, those wolves and pillagers of the sea, and see for one’s self how easily they hunt at heights and deliberately pick their prey. Not by any means do they nab the first too large or too little fish, but wait and pick out the very fellow the right size for flying away with. Nearly every time they fall all in a bunch from a height of a hundred or more feet with a splash and are off with the poor wriggling fish—as easy as falling off a log.