Man iz a phool enny how, and the best ov the joke iz, he don’t seem tew kno it.
Bats hav a destiny tew fill, and i will bet 4 dollars, they fill it better than we do ours.
Bats liv on flies, and hawks liv on bats, but who livs on the hawks, i kant tell.
Biled hawk may be good, i never herd enny boddy say it wasn’t, but i dont hope i shall ever be called upon tew decide it.
Tew save life, i would eat biled hawk, but if it tastes az i think it duz, i wouldn’t ask for a seckond plate ov it.
THE HAWK.
The hawk iz a karniverous foul, and a chickiniverous one too, every good chance he kan git.
I hav seen them shut up their wings, and drop doun out ov the skey, like a destroying angel, and pick up a yung goslin in each hand, and sore aloft agin pretty quick.
They bild their nests out ov the reach ov civilizashun, so 148 that no mishionary kan git to them, unless he kan klimb well.
Powder and double B shot, iz the only thing that will civilize a hawk clear through, so that he will stay so, and it takes a big charge ov this too.