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killed him.] The eagles when they shake their wings 

 make the Dragons afraid with their rattling noise, then the 

 Dragon hideth himself within his den. The eagle devoureth 

 the Dragons and little serpents upon earth, and the Dragons 

 again and serpents do the like against the eagles in the 

 air. The griffins are likewise said to fight with the Dragons 

 and overcome them. The panther [<7-^.] also is an enemy 

 unto the Dragons, and driveth them many times into their 

 dens. Topsell, "History of Serpents/' pp. 706-15. 



THE inhabitants of Paraca, by eating a Dragon's heart 

 and liver, attain to understand the language (if so I may 

 term it) of beasts. Purehas " Pilgrims," p. 457 (ed. 1616). 



Drone. 



A huge feeder ; 



Snail slow in profit, and he sleeps by day 

 More than the wild-cat ; drones hive not with me. 



MERCHANT OF VENICE, ii. 5, 48. 



THE Drone is a larger kind of bee ; and it eats the 

 fruit of others' labour ; for it eats what it has not worked 

 for, as it makes no honey. 



Hortus Banitatis, bk. iii. (" Of Birds "), ch. li. 



Duck. 



IF you see Ducks fly massed together, even though the 

 sky be clear, you will expect rain speedily ; if they flap 

 their wings together while on the land, you may suppose 

 that there will be a gale. 



Jonston, "Natural History of Birds," ch. iii. 3 (1657). 





Eagle. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 3, 334. 



AMONG all manner kinds of divers fowls, the Eagle is 

 the more liberal and free of heart ; for the prey that she 

 taketh, but it be for great hunger she eateth not alone, but 

 putteth it forth in common to fowls that follow her ; but 



