OF SDs, ieee 
‘the old Eagles were gone, he slieabedli up to their 
~ neft and took away for his family a part of the 
fawn, and fome of the hares, and rabbits, and par- 
_ tridges, which they had brought for their young 
‘ones. “When the little Eagles were almoft ready 
~ to fly, he cut their wings, to keep them in their 
nefts; and the old ones continued to bring them 
hares, and kids, and rabbits, a great while longer. 
In the Lake of Killarney, which is in Ireland, 
there are feveral iflands. In one of thefe iffands * 
2 two Lagles had built their neft, and hatched their 
young. A thoughtlefs boy went to rob this neft, 
he pulled off his clothes, and fwam to the iftand, 
when the old Eagles were away, and he was fo : 
“eniiel-oe to fleat their young; he tied them with — 
a firing, and had waded into the lake until the 
water reac hed oi to his eEKs and ane began to 
oe fwim. | 
~The old. Eagles were ‘coming back to their : 
neft, and faw him taking away the Eaglets (or 
young Eagles); fo they few down upon him, 
_ and with their ftrong crooked beaks, and ftrong | 
crooked talons, they foon killed him. 
-~ Eagles kill and devour poultry. In the Orkney 
Iflands, which are a little north of Scotland, if 
any man kill an Eagle, every family in the parith 
‘4s meet to make him a prefent of a hen, Tn 
