Its bill penetrated his eyeball and completely ruined his sight.
There are several instances on record in which game fowls have destroyed the eyes of their owners.

In one case a game cock almost completed the enucleation of the eye of his handler by striking him with his gaff while preparing in a cock-pit.
Moorehead explains a rare accident to an eye as follows:-- "Mr.S.B.A., while attending to his bees, was stung by one upon the right upper eyelid near its center.

An employee, who was assisting in the work, immediately discovered the sting driven in the lid and cautiously extracted it, stating that he made sufficient traction to lift the lid well away from the globe.

In a few hours the lid became much swollen, but the pain experienced at first had disappeared.

Before retiring for the night he began gentle massage of the lid, stroking it horizontally with his finger.