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downwards, as literally to tear the thigh from the body 

 of his assailant ! The severed limb was found attached to 

 the bush in question; but of the eagle himself, which was 

 carried bodily under water by the pike, nothing more was 

 ever afterwards seen or heard." 



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Again " My father, the late A. Willman, Stads-Medicus, 

 or town doctor, in Malmo, who received the first rudiments 

 of his education in the country," such were the words of 

 Dr. Willman, " related to me that in his boyhood it hap- 

 pened one day in the vicinity of where he dwelt, that 

 an eagle pounced down upon and fixed his talons in the 

 back of a heifer, which in her fright rushed with all 

 speed towards the Ladu-gdrd, or cattle-house. On the way 

 home, the animal passed a gate-post, of which the eagle 

 thought to take advantage ; for whilst retaining hold of his 



