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Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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em up again. The old birds drive ofif theyoung ones as soon as they can fly, and keep the nest for themselves. They are not very pleasant neighbours, as you may suppose, from theirhabits of plunder. One day an old minister was walking in his garden, when he heard aloud squeaking noise, that, after being very violent, began to grow fainter.He went to see what was the matter, and arrived at the spot just in timeto catch a pariing gHmpse of his nice fat pig as it was being carried throughthe air by an eagle. Another day the eagle, having finished the pig, came again to see whathe could find. But this time he made rather a mistake. By way of varyinghis diet, he swooped on a sheep. But his claws got entangled in the wool,and the sheep was rather too heavy to be carried through the air as the pighad been. The minister had time to get to the spot, and knock the eagledown with a stick. Of course, the eagles are not at all liked, and the people do all they can DESTRUCTION OF THE EAGLES NEST 15
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-O THE IMPERIAL EAGLE. to destroy them. But it is no easy matter to climb up to the place where thenests are built, and very few persons are bold enough to do it. Sometimes aman is let down over the face of the rock by a rope, till he gets to the ledge,and then he sets the nests on hre. 16 STOJilES ABOUT BIRDS. Sometimes the young eagles are taken out of the nests, and carried awayto be tamed. One of these tame eagles was kept by the squire—or laird, as heis called—of the district. He used to be chained in the kitchen, where hehad rather a happy time of it. The servants made a great fuss with him,especially the cook, who fed him with every dainty. The eagle was very fond of her; but one day he could not refrain fromstealing her shoes. She had left them just within his reach, and he pouncedupon them, and thrust his own feet into them. None of the other servantscould make him give them up; but when the cook came back, he quietlyallowed her to take them off. THE SEA EAGLE. It is a gr

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