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torn out by his claws, hovered slowly down 

 after them. 



It was all the work of an instant before I Cloud-tOinds 

 lost them among the trees far below. And Ifi^ccnglle 

 when I found them again with my glass, the 

 eaglet was in the top of a great pine, and the 

 mother was feeding him. 



And then, standing there alone in the 

 great wilderness, it flashed upon me for the 

 first time just what the wise old prophet 

 meant; though he wrote long ago in a dis- 

 tant land, and another than Cloud-Wings 

 had taught her little ones, all unconscious of 

 the kindly eyes that watched out of a thicket : 

 " As the eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth 

 over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, 

 taketh them, beareth them on her wings, — 

 so the Lord." J} 



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