Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — GIRL'S FIGHT WITH A HAWK. [ARTICLE]

GIRL'S FIGHT WITH A HAWK.

California Child Displayed a Wonderful Amount of Pluck. Ida Duffy, the 9-year-old daughter of Thomas J. Duffy, of the Palatine Insurance Company, of San Francisco, had a desperate battle with a wounded chicken hawk at San Rafael and narrowly escape with her life. Several days ago the bird was given to the child and it has since been kept a prisoner In the yard of the family residence at that place. The other morning the hawk succeeded In malting its escape and flew to a near-by tree, where a piece of string attached to Its leg became entangled in the branches, again making the bird a prisoner. The little girl seeing that the hawk was unable to fly away, ran to the tree, and taking advantage of its spreading limbs, rapidly climbed to a spot many feet above the ground, where the bird was entangled. She attempted to undo the string from the tree, when suddenly the bird swooped at her and burled the talons of both feet in the little girl’s face. The child screamed with pain, but pluckily fought the hawk off as again aud agalu it attacked her with beak, talons and wings. The child’s face was terribly scratched and her hands cut in the struggle, but the little heroine dung to the tree and eventually securing a hold on the bird’s legs prevented it from doing further harm. Slowly and painfully she cllml)ed down the tree aud still clinging to the struggling bird she brought It with her to the ground and placed It In captivity. Then she ran to the house, where her cut and bleeding face was promptly attended to.—Dos Angeles Times.