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in the world can buy. One can get all the thrilling sensations of 

 height by standing up in a quaking eagle's nest sixty feet from the 

 ground, that one can possibly get from the top of the Eiffel Tower 

 or on the peak of Mount Washington, or from a flying-machine 

 among the clouds. And then who among the rich of the world ever 

 saw eagles' eggs in a nest, or had eagles dig him with their talons ? 

 To be alive to all the wonder of the life, to all the beauty of the 

 world about us, is the very secret of living. An eagle's nest to climb 

 into is as good as a flying-machine. 



Take occasion, too, at the end of the story to say how much better, 

 how much more interesting, an act it was to leave the eggs to hatch 

 than to rob the nest and thus destroy two young eagles. Some years 

 later, for instance, two young eagles were taken from a neighboring 

 nest and were sent to the Zoological Gardens at Philadelphia, where 

 they may still be living for thousands of visitors each year to see. 

 Who knows but that one of the parents of these two captive birds 

 may have been in the eggs laid back by the boy in that nest ? 



FOR THE PUPIL 

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Maurice River Cove : Where is Maurice River Cove ? What is 

 the Cove famous for ? 



great eagle's nest: Look up the habits of the bald eagle in some 

 natural history. Is he a very great enemy to man ? If a pair of 

 the noble birds lived in your neighborhood would you want their 

 nest destroyed and the birds shot? Do you know the story of 

 "Old Abe " ? Look that up also. 

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scream of a wild cat : The wild cat is still to be found throughout 

 the United States wherever the country is very wild and wooded. 

 • Its cry or scream is an indescribable thrill that shoots cold all 

 over you, freezing fast in the roots of your hair. 

 mud-hens : The mud-hen or American coot, a dark bluish slate- 

 colored bird of the marshes about the size of a large bantam, 

 with an ivory-white bill and peculiar lobed toes, instead of webbed 

 like a duck's. 



eyrie : What does the word mean ? Are there any other ways of 

 spelling it ? 



