EAGLE V. LOBSTER.

Lake County Press, Issue 2115, 26 April 1906, Page 7

EAGLE V. LOBSTER.

—* — He was a Newfoundland lobster, and bis would-be captor was a whiteheaded" eagle. The story of the combat that ensued is thus told in a recent, number of "Forest and stream” ; "My, guide and 1 were sitting on the rocks b,\ r the seashore watciting the liird wheeling round in circles, when suddenly we saw him nash down into a pool of water closr by us on the beach and reappear. Holding an enormous lobster in ills talons. lie was an old lobster, with a huge claw, while with burnaneS ; but the eagle had him clutched (irmly round the back, and at first we could see tiie claw hanging helplessly down, the barnacles shining while in the sunlight. "Only for a second though. The ripples on the pool had not yet died away, the large drops of water hud not. ceased to fall upon its surface from the soaring eagle's feathers and the captive lobster alike when the lobster suddenly awoke to the seriousness of the situation, aval to think with that apparently helpless creature was to act. I p came the great white claw ami seized the eagle round the neck. ••'Then; was a furious fluttering- and . beating of wings, a melancholy sqnak, and then, tumbling and rolling head over heels in the air in a confused mass, down came eagle and lobster again, into the pool. "We rushed forward, thinking that we could, perhaps, secure both combatants, as the splashing of the conflict continued in the shallow water. Hut we had hardly time to pick up it stone apiece to throw before lobster, feeling himself vcf home gain, let go his hold. ■ "Now with his neck all torn mil devoid of feathers, away flew tl« bedraggled eagle, while still brand' ishing his enormous claw in dchance, ' the lobster remained —smiling, peri haps—at the bottom of the pool.”