Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-25
The Locomotive Hawk.

1t is very queer, but 1t seems that
there are rogues and rascals among ami
mails, fish and birds just as there are
among men. One of the worst rascals
among birds is the hawk. There lives
cunning old hawk along railroad be-
tween the stations of Mesgviny and
Romilly, in France. He has lived on
the railroad for fifteen years and he has
reason for not moving to some other
part of the country. One of The en-
gineers on that road says that he will
fly along with the train, going fast
when the train goes fast and slow when
the train slackens its speed. He knows
that all the little birds fly up from the
hedges and brushes by the side of the
track when the trains pass, and so he
can easily pounce down on them. II it
were not for the train the old pirate
would have to 60 searching through the
woods and fields for his prey, because
birds know that they must hide from
him and that they can do it in every
other place except along the railroad.
In fact, they might see him there, but
he keeps himself hidden in the smoke
and steam made by the locomotive. It
is a pity that the trains are not able to
run away from the hawk, but he can fly
all around them, however fast they may
be running.
A Fable.
Many thousand minutes ago in
the time Of the good Caiph Abou
Ben Stokley, who reigned over the me-
tropolis of Manayunk, there lived a
doll, very proud and scornful. One
day the doll said to meek and lowly
caramel: who'd be an old cream cara
mel, I'd like to know, I would?" The
poor caramel was offended, and, saying
"I'm sweet, anyhow, and besides, one
of your eyes won't squint cause it's
out O. ORDER" went off to itself and
wept. Just then the bad brother of the
dolls mistress came along, and, seeing
the state of affairs, said, "Poor dear
caramel, if the doll won't love you I
WILL" slipped the caramel into his
mouth. After the bad brother had
gone the dolls mistress came in.
"Who's got my caramel?" said she, and,
falling into mad pet, seized the doll
and threw it out at the window in the
gutter below.
MoRAL.-It's better to have a pound
of good caramels Christmas than a
whole houseful of proud dolls.
BIr. Worst and the Hawk.
Here is another hawk story. This
hawk. though, is not a French bird, bnt
Pennsylvania one. While Mr.. Gee.
N. Worst "a funny name, isn't it; ali
have heard of Mr.. Best, but who heard
of Mr.. Worst before while MIR.
Worst, who lives in Lancaster, was
shooting birds out in the country he
saw large hawk sitting in tree. He
crept up very close and fired at the
hawk. The hawk fell to the ground.
Mr.. Worst ran to pick it up, and the
hawk kept quiet until lie saw the hand
approaching. Then he pecked out with
his sharp beak and tore one of Mr..
Wors s fingers almost off. Now, if it
were not wicked to make what is called
pun, or play upon words, one might
ask: "Did MIR. Worst get the best of
it that time?"
Mr.. Yellow Jackets Cousins.
A cousin of the yellow jacket is the
hornet, an insect who is known for his
bad temper and also for the way in
which he sticks pins. In the town of
Chambersburg, Pa, a farmer entered
Mr.. j. s. Nixon's drug store, holding in
his hand hornets nest as big as a
straw hat. Mr.. Nixon hung the nest
up over where gas was burning. Soon
ten hornets came out of the nest very
unexpectedly and in ten seconds there
wasn't man in the store. Mr.. Nixon
didn't know the hornets were there, but
they we're, and had been warmed into