Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-30
CHAPTER III.
General Swallow Tackles a Hun.

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she found herself somersault-
= ing toward the ground that
for moment she didn't know what
had happened. Then she realized
that bullet had struck her airplane
and upset it. Without waiting to
wonder if the damage was fatal, she
pulled on her controls.
The airplane went into another
somersault, stopped short and
Strengthened out. But it was upside
down. Peggy braced her knees to
keep from falling headlong, and
again jerked the controls. The air
plane turned down, took a frightful
dive and Strengthened out right side
up.
Peggy felt thrill of relief at
her own safety, but this was follow
ed instantly by a flash of alarm as
she thought of General Swallow.
He was falling far beneath her. She
Feared that he was badly hurt, per-
haps dead.
Pointing the airplane downward,
she dived at such speed that she
soon passed her tumbling Bird
friend. Quickly she Strengthened
out, coming up beneath General
Swallow so that he dropped gently
on the top of her plane. At least
she , would prevent his being
smashed by the long fall to the
ground.
General Swallows weight made
the machine wobble badly and she
had all she could do to prevent its
upsetting again. Then she headed
for the ground so she could find how
seriously he had been injured.
To her surprise she heard shrek
of protest. Then General Swallows
head appeared, looking down over
the edge of the airplane.
"Up, up" he shrilled. "We're
going back to fight the Huns"
Aren't you hurt" asked Peggy,
screaming loudly to make herself
heard above the whirr of her air
plane.
"My pride and my feelings are"
shrilled General Swallow in reply,
"and I'm going to thrash the Hun
who did It'll" With that he launched
off the plane and flew along be-
side Peggy. Look at my lovely
tail,' he cried Indignantly. "It's been
ruined by that Germans bullets"
ooh, is that ALP" screamed Peg
gy, ready to laugh in her relief.
isn't that enough? My beauty is
spoiled" shrilled General Swallow
angrily.
The bullets had caught General
Swallow right in the tail, clipping
off several feathers and tumbling
him over, but he himself wasn't hurt
a bit. And HIS beauty wasn't spoiled
either, for other feathers would
probably grow out in place Of those
he had lost.
But General Swallow was in a
very fury of rage, and he climbed
up toward the fighting aviators so
fast that Peggy had to squirt to keep
up with him.
Teddy Rose was battling hard
against the seven Huns. Six of the
German machines had~him hemmed
in, and the seventh was behind him
in such a way that the pilot could
pour a deadly stream of bullets at
him. This the German was just
about to do when General Swallow
went into action.
That's the Hun who shot me, "
screeched General Swallow, and he
darted straight at the German. The
enemy pilot had his hand on the
trigger of his GUN when the angry
Bird struck him in the face. The
German lodged to one side and
his finger pulled the trigger. His
jerk caused his plane to swerve to
point to one side and point at an
other German. "Br-r-r-r-r! went
the machine gun, hurting its bullets
right into the other German plane,
cutting the control wires and caus-
ing the machine to dive helplessly
toward the earth.
But General Swallow didn't stop
at this. Before the German could
recover from the shock of his first
dash he seized the aviator's nose in
his sharp beak and nipped for all
he was worth. The STARTLED Ger
man let go his controls and grabbed
for his tormentor. General Swallow
darted to one side and nipped the
German in the back of the neck.
Then he pecked at the mans Cog