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able circumstance occurred to the mother of a child ; 
she was working in the folds, and had laid her infant 
on the ground, at a little distance; soon after, an 
Eagle darted down and carried it off. For a con- 
siderable time the wretched woman heard the poor 
child screaming in the air ; but there was no help. 
She saw it no more; in a little time she lost her 
Teason, and is, we believe, still living, confined in the 
lunatic asylum of the town near which it happened. 
On Tirst Holm, one of the Ferroe Islands, si- 
tuated between the north of Scotland and Iceland, a 
similar fact occurred : an Eagle caught up an infant 
lying at a little distance from its mother, and carried 
it to its nest, situated on a point of a high rock, so 
steep, that the boldest bird-catchers had never ven- 
tured to attempt to climb it ; the mother, however, 
ascended, and reached the nest, but alas ! too late : 
the child was dead, and its eyes torn out. But the 
most striking story we have met with, is the brave 
behaviour of a little boy in America ; it occurred in 
the parish of St. Ambrose, near New York. Two 
boys, the one seven, and the other five years old, 
were amusing themselves by trying to reap, while 
their parents were at dinner. A large Eagle soon 
came sailing over them, and with a sudden swoop 
attempted to seize the eldest, but luckily missed 
him. The bird not at all dismayed, alighted at a 
short distance, and in a few moments repeated his 
attempt. The bold little fellow, however, gallantly 
defended himself with the sickle, which he fortu- 
nately held in his hand, and when the bird rushed 
upon him, resolutely struck at it. The sickle entered 
under the left wing, and the blow having been given 
