A Prince of the House of Eagles 



By ETTA S. WILSON 



With Photographs by Mrs. W. A. Craker 



IT IS the privilege of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Craker, of Omena, Mich., to 

 possess an Eagle for a pet ; and a most delightful pet is this bird, knowing 

 his friends, enjoying their society, and furnishing them with endless 

 pleasure and amusement by his capers and pranks, his dignified poses and 

 occasional outbursts of anger. 



In July, 19 1 7, accompanied by an Indian guide named Me-giz-ze-was 

 (Eagle) while on a camping trip in one of the lake regions of Michigan, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Craker discovered 

 a large, dark -colored 

 bird floundering around 

 apparently unable to 

 extricate himself from 

 the entangling branches 

 of a thick growth of 

 young evergreens. 

 Heavy of body, weak 

 of wing, and wholly 

 inexpert, the bird, mak- 

 ing a mighty effort, 

 would rise almost to the 

 top of the evergreens, 

 only to fall back again 

 into the meshes of hem- 

 lock and cedar. Finally, 

 becoming exhausted, 

 the bird was easily 

 caught, when, to their 

 great delight, they saw 

 that it was a young 

 Bald Eagle. 



The bird measured 

 six feet six inches from 

 tip to tip of wings; its 

 eyes and beak were dark 

 and its plumage dark 

 brown, somewhat like 

 that of a Golden Eagle 

 in color. He was a 



good fighter. "when three years old he was still brqwn" 



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