EAGLE V. LOBSTER.

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 50, 17 July 1906, Page 8

EAGLE V. LOBSTER.

He was d Newfoundland JobstdF/ and his would-be candor was a-whrf#-* headed'eagle. Tho story of the com-* bat that ensued is thus told in a r#-; cent number of “Forest aA<f stream"

“My, guide and I were sitting on' the rocks by the seashore watching tho bird wheeling round in circles, when suddenly we saw him dash down into a pool of water close byus on the beach and reappear, hold- 1 ing an enormous lobster in his talons. He was an old lobster, with a huge claw, white with barnacles ; but the eagle had hint clutched firmly round the back, and at first we could see the claw hanging helplessly down, the barnacles shining white in the sunlight.

“Only for a second though. The ripples on the pool had not yet died away, the large drops of water had 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, and to think with that apparently helpless creature was to act. Cp came the k great white claw and seized the eagle round the neck.

“There was a furious fluttering and beating of wings, a melancholy) squak, and then, tumbling and refiling head over heels in the air in a confused mass, down came eagie find’ lobster again, into the pool.

4 ‘We rushed forward, thinking that we could, perhaps, secure both, combatants, as the splashing of the conflict continued in the shalknv water.* But we had hardly time to pick upj a stone apiece to throw before the lobster, feeding himself at homMr gain, let go his hold. “Now with his neck all tom devoid of feathers, away

bedraggled eagle, white still bran&4 ishing his enormous claw iu defiance, the lobster remained—smiling, Rsrhaps—at the bottom of the p 001.4. 4