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are capable of great docility, and, in some 
cases, of inviolable attachment: 
" A gentleman who lived in the South of 
Scotland had, a few years ago, a tame Eagle 
of this species, which the keeper one day 
injudiciously thought proper, for some petty 
fault, to lash with a horsewhip. About a 
week afterwards, the man chanced to stoop 
within reach of its chain, when the enraged 
animal, recollecting the late insult, flew in 
his face with so much fury and violence, that 
he was terribly wounded, but was luckily 
driven so far back by the blow, as to be out 
of all further danger. The screams of the 
Eagle alarmed the family, who found the 
poor man lying at some distance in a very 
bloody plight, equally stunned with the 
fright and the fall. The animal was still 
pacing about and screaming in a manner 
not less threatening than majestic. It was 
even dreaded, whether, in so violent a rage, 
he might not break loose; which circum- 
stance actually took place, but fortunately, 
perhaps, for them, not till after they had 
withdrawn, and he escaped for ever." 
