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Stories about birds of land and water (1874)

Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893, Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873 · Hartford [Conn.] : American Publishing Co. · leaf 18

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y 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… … -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…

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