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that it is a dangerous thing to upset 

 the balance which Nature has poised 

 so nicely in her wise hands; and 

 sportsmen are beginning to think 

 that Eagles do more good than 

 harm on the hillsides and the 

 moors. 



Shepherds are not quite so sure 

 about the matter. They care, you 

 see, for little besides the welfare of 

 their flocks ; and it cannot be 

 denied that a great deal of harm 

 is done amongst the lambs; the 

 enormous strength of an Eagle's 

 claws and thighs making little of 

 the weight of even a half-grown 

 sheep. 



A pair of these birds, living on 

 Mount Hecla, in the Isle of Uist, 

 flew almost daily to Skye for a lamb 

 all the time they were rearing their 

 eaglets. The distance is twenty- 

 five or twenty-six miles. The Uist 

 shepherds declared that the cunning 

 birds, fearing vengeance if they 



