... her fowls immense hawk swooped down, and caught a hen in its talons. Without apprehending danger to herself, Mrs. Hinckley picked a (tone and threw it at hawk. The missile struck the bird, and seemed to enrage it, for it flew nciouely , at the women. Mrs ...

... lawyer’s calling, being taken in hand with switch, after having been forbidden to pick another pear from a favourite dwarf tree, indignantly exclaimed, Mamma. I did not pick off the pear ; yon come and see if I did.’’ Sure enough he didn’t. He simply stood ...