Rural School Leaflet 



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Bald eagle. — Size: Four times as large as a hen. 

 General color: Head, neck, and tail white. Remainder of body dark 

 brown. 



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The bald eagle 



" He clasps the crag with hooked hands; 

 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 

 Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. 



" The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 

 He watches from his mountain walls, 

 And like a thunderbolt he falls." 



ALFRED TENNYSON 



