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will not feel its pulse nor enquire how it is ; 

 and shepherds say they will not take them 

 .after they are three weeks old ; while if the 

 ewe has the courage to charge the eagle and 

 hterally to send him ' flying,' she would do this 

 whether the lamb was strong or weak. Mr. 

 Gray does not think they will eat carrion. It 

 is fortunate that they do, or they would be far 

 more destructive than they are. We know a 

 keeper who trapped two which were feeding on 

 the carcase of a dead liind. 



Mr. Bonner, in a book called ' Forest 

 Creatures,' lays it down as a well-known fact 

 that they will fast for days together. This is 

 the sort of statement that it would seem im- 

 possible to prove ; for what man has ever 

 watched an eagle from sunrise to sunset? though 

 were he heavily to gorge himself late in the 

 evening he might perhaps be seen sitting on 

 the same rock the whole of the next day. 



They are still more numerous than people 

 imagine, and we see a few every year in the 



