Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — SPARROW HAWK GETS CANARY [ARTICLE]

SPARROW HAWK GETS CANARY

Yellow-Feathered Songster Escapes in City From Cage and Fall* Prey to Hawk. San Francisco. —A Chinese woman and her three little children came marching proudly up Kearny street. They carried a cage and a canary. At Commercial street the door of the cage came open and the bird flew out. It lighted on a wire overhead. Pedestrians gathered around and helped the woman and the children try to coax it down. The canary hopped about and defied them for a while. Then all of a sudden it fluttered down toward the walk. 'But it was not quick enough. Before it alighted a sparrow hawk swooped down from somewhere and grabbed it. There was a squeak and a flutter of wings almost within reach of the people on the .sidewalk. Then the hawk with its prey flew down Commercial street and was gone.