HORSES PECULIAR DEATH.
ATTACKED BY A SWAX. A pool oa tho farm of Mrs. Ellis, BrooUhousc, Wins-ford, Cheshire, was tho Kceno of a reinarkablo conflict between a swan and a valuable Shire horse belonging to Sirs. Ellis, ■terminating in the horse Iwiiig drnwiß'd. For home months a couple of swans, with seven cygnets, had made their homo on the. pool, and when tho hor.vo went to drink -it appears the female bird made a savageattack upon it. The horse's forelegs became embedded in tho mud, and ho was unable to move, the bird meanwhile having Mown on his neck. The violent flapping of the swan's enormous wings gradually stunned tho animal and ho fell in the water and was drowned. Only two or three, days previously tho same swan attacked two cows, severely injuring them.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1584, 30 October 1912, Page 11
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135HORSES PECULIAR DEATH. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1584, 30 October 1912, Page 11
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