A MAN ATTACKED BY SPARPOWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 264, 14 November 1878, Page 4

A MAN ATTACKED BY SPARPOWS.

One mile nnd forty iofa north of the Wifu) village of Sacquoif, r< rides •Mr Andrew J. Green. Day before yes'.erday he started to walk to the v.llage. Swinging along with bis wonted stride, snd leeching a point tmhin half-a-miie of Mb destination, bia atfeution wtsatlrncied by the Blrange actions of a large flock of sparrows, boyerirjg low down over the Bidewalk, flvicg lapidly hither and thither in preat excitemeDl. As he approached them, and when in their midst, they euoced no fenr of his presence, and, instead of flying away oa his entrance Btnons.' them, they pressed around him in greater numbtrs, ani almost immediately attacked him with their sharp bills with ir rt at fury. At first he wus disposed to trent Hie attack as a trivial trailer nnd attempted to brush tbemaway wiih his bands, but ihe few thus displaced were immediately replaced by myriads more, darting, cbatterinp, and piercing him with (heir sharp bills like " the flight of a crowd of arrows." Their immense numbers and persistent chaige WES bo great thai he Wbb soon thrown to the ground. Now thoroughly alarmed, Ijq struggled to his feet Covering his eyes r.nd faco with one band, sa well no pot sible, be endeavored with the otlierhbnd to wrest from the fence at his side a sioke or picket with which to defend himself, but not succeeding, and the wild and infuriated little warriers still incleasing their ettack, ha was forced 10 fight U<em again with his hendp, when again he web thrown to the ground. Now really ienified /or his life, ho pulled his coat over his hen Had bend for protection, regained bis feet and fled for his life, but they did not pursue him far. Exhausted, and with his hands bleeding, he reached tho village, convinced that ho had v narrow t scape. — Utica Observer.