Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Two-Months-Old Child Seriously Hurt by Chicken that Invades House.
Mount Vernon, Illinois July 1.-The two-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. Potts, living at Thacher’s Gap, southeast of this city, was injured by a hen that pecked out its right eye.
The child was playing on the floor and the hen wandered into the house and was attracted by the little one and deliberately pecked its face and eye until one eye was destroyed. The mother, attracted by the cries of the child drove the hen away.