Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 94
x or seven pounds. Add to this thestruggles of the fish to free itself, and you may fancythe strength of the bird. I have heard, but I neversaw an instance of it, that the fish is sometimesstrong enough to drag the bird into the water, wherehe is drowned. The next tide carries him up onthe beach… … in all his traits than any of the eagle species. Hisonly prey is fish, so I can tell you no wonderfulstories of children, or even of lambs, carried off- byhim to feed a ravenous brood. He never interfereswith smaller birds, as the eagle does. On the con-trary, a little timid bird called the crow…
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