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at the young bird. Hardly allowing myself time to 

 eat, with all expedition I got together ten wood-cutters, 

 and without delay climbed up to the spot once more 

 with Weber and the young forester Vogler, who, as 

 being the lightest and boldest of the party, had volun- 

 teered to be bound to a rope let down from above, and 

 thus, in the usual fashion, to be drawn up to the nest 

 from where we stood. I told Weber, beforehand, that 

 owing to the projection of the overhanging rock, it 

 would be impossible for Vogler, while hanging by the 

 rope, to pull himself in horizontally towards the eyrie, 

 even though furnished, as he intended to be, with a 

 sort of boat-hook fifteen feet long. In the first place, 

 the hooked pole was at least ten feet too short, the 

 overhanging rock projecting twenty-five feet; and, 

 secondly, on account of such considerable projection, it 

 v/ould only be possible to get above or heloiu the eyrie, 

 but not to get into it, even supposing that he had 

 really a pole twenty-five feet long, and were able to 

 direct his motions while thus dangling in the air. But 

 he did not believe me. Hardly, however, was Vogler 

 hoisted thirty feet upwards, when the honest fellow 

 himself saw that he was much too far away from the 

 face of the rock. Moreover, as the rope turned round, 

 he grew quite giddy and bewildered, and cried out, 

 " Lant mi ra ! Lant mi ra ! I verlier da Verstand ! 

 T wer ganz tormli ! " — (" Let me down ! Let me down I 



