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Title: Birds of the Bible
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham New York, Eaton and Mains
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This stone is medicinal, and singular good formany diseases, and if it he jiut into the fiii it will nevera whit consume. Now this stone, as they say, is also withchild; for if a man shake it, he shall hear another torattle and sound uithin. as it wi-re in tlu hellv or womi)of it. But that virtue medicinahle, above said is not inthese stones, if they he not fallen out of the very nestfrom the arie. How an eagle attacks a deer is (kscril)ed thus: (heeagles maintain battle with tht red dier, even the stag andthe hind. Ihe maniur of the eagle is. after she hathwallowed in tlu dust, and gathered a deal thereof amongher featheiN, to settle upon the horns of the deer afore-said, to shake the saiiu off into iiis eyes, to flap and beatliini about the face with her wings, until she drive himamong the rocks, and there force him to fall dou n tVomthence lieadlong. and so break his neck. He also wrote that the eagle was so ))()werful that ifits wing quills were laid in a box among the feathers of
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Tin-: KA(;).K 2^ otlier birds, those of the eagle would devour and con-sume all the rest. The more ca<i;\c history one reads hypag-an writers, the more enjoyable become the majesticlines of the Christians, Moses, Job, Jeremiah, and Ha-bakkuk. Moses had somcthinpj to say of the eale in a beautifulson<^ setting forth the mercy of (iod, in Deuteronomy: For the Lords portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of tl s inheritance. He found him in desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness ; He compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eje. As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her j-oung, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bear them on his pinions ; The Lord alone did lead iiim. And there was no strange (iod with hiai. He made him to ride on the high jilaces of the earth.And he did eat the increase of the fields ,He made him to suck hone)* out of the rock.And oil out of the flinty rock. Butter of kine, and milk o

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