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pounced at him and seized him in the air the water bird with great difficulty dragged him again under water and escaped severely wounded in the struggle Melech Mahommed remained in the lake till the Danger was over when he took flight and arriving at his uncles house perched on the roof. His uncle at that very time was looking at the game which had been brought in and expressing his regret that the water bird had escaped from the clutches of the hawk and that the hawk had been dabbled in the water Melech Mahommed thought this a fit time to make his appearance and draggled and stained with blood as he was darted into the middle of the party Every body was surprised at the circumstance and thought it ominous for a water fowl to venture amid a company of men But when Danish Bait saw the woeful flight in which the bird was with his feathers and wings all ruffled and bespattered with blood he immediately divined that it was Melech Mahommed who had been wounded by the claws of the hawk and said “water bird if you be my nephew rustle your feathers The bird complied and