300 EAGLES KILLED BY A BOY. 



on coming up that the boy (who was only thirteen years 

 old) had got two magnificent eagles, which he held by the 

 necks over his shoulders, and seemed ready to drop from 

 fatigue. 



" It appeared that young Donald's indignation had been 

 roused by having failed a few days before in his attempts 

 to defend a lamb which was carried off in spite of him ; 

 and many others of his flock had shared the same fate. 

 Meditating mortal revenge, he got possession of his father's 

 gun by stealth; and marking the eagles to their eyry, in 

 Lachnagan, he hid himself on a rock near the nest, and 

 remained there all night. 



" At break of day the male eagle kept hovering about 

 the nest, and the boy took a deliberate aim, and brought 

 him to the grounvl. The female soared aloft, and stooped 

 after her mate for some time, but out of distance from the 

 boy, who, from fear, dared not venture from his hiding- 

 place, as his prey still struggled amongst the stones at some 

 little distance from him ; at length the female eagle flew 

 off, but soon returned with a lamb in her talons for the 

 supply of her young brood. In the mean while the deter- 

 mined little rogue had reloaded, and watching his time 

 warily, took another shot, and with such skill and effect, 

 that the female fell prostrate and quivering beside her 

 mate ; but the poor lamb was killed. Mr. Skene added, 

 that he measured the birds at the time, but has mislaid 

 the note of the measure; he well remembers, however, 

 Abergeldie's observation that they were the largest birds 

 he had ever seen ; and most noble animals they certainly 

 were." 



The whole herd of deer were now belling, and going 



