„ returned several times, and from a distance 

 watched the eaglets being fed. But I never 

 Cloud-Winds climbed to the nest again. 



T^iWe One day, when I came to the little thicket 

 ^Cap/e ^^ ^j^g ^jjg where I used to lie and watch 

 the nest through my glass, I found that one 

 eaglet was gone. The other stood on the 

 edge of the nest, looking down fearfully into 

 the abyss, whither, no doubt, his bolder nest- 

 mate had flown, and calling disconsolately 

 from time to time. His whole attitude 

 showed plainly that he was hungry and cross 

 and lonesome. Presently the mother eagle 

 came swiftly up from the valley, and there 

 was food in her talons. She came to the 

 edge of the nest, hovered over it a moment, 

 so as to give the hungry eaglet a sight and 

 smell of food, then went slowly down to the 

 valley, taking the food with her, telling the 

 little one in her own way to come and he 

 should have it. He called after her loudly 

 from the edge of the nest, and spread his 

 wings a dozen times to follow. But the 

 plunge was too awful ; his heart failed him ; 

 and he settled back in the nest, and pulled 



