Stories About Birds. 



THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 



The eagle stands at the head of a tribe of great fierce birds — the birds of 

 prey. They may be called the tyrants of their race, for they are constantly 

 seizing and devouring the smaller and weaker birds ; and they also attack 

 animals. 



Nature has given them great strength of muscle and of talon, and a 

 certain fierce courage that has a kind of grandeur about it. But they lack the 

 intelligence of the smaller birds ; they have not the skill of weaving or 

 building those exquisite nests about which we shall speak presently ; nor 

 have they the gift of song. Their voices are harsh and screaming ; they 

 do not gladden the summer landscape, and their abode is in wild and solitary 

 places. 



You see the eagle, as he sits on the crag of some mountain top. He is 

 called the King of the Birds, and well deserves his title. He is monarch of 

 all he surveys. Around him are the mighty peaks of the rocks, the deep dark 

 pine forest, and the chasms, the dells, and the pits, that men behold with 

 wonder and with dread. The eagle's wing has borne him over them with ease. 

 Perhaps he has his nest in yonder ledge of the precipice. There the mother 



