CARRIED OFF BY EAGLE
CHILD FOUND UNINJURED With no trace of fear, a little boy found on the top of a precipitous rock, stated a recent message from Madras, joyfully exclaimed. '■ The bird brought nie heie in its beak." The child had been playing in tlje open, and a big eagle had been seen hovering over it. When the child did not return home his mother became anxious, and searched for her son all over the village, but could not find him. Those who had seen the eagle hovering in the neighbourhood surmised that the child must have been carried away by the bud. and search parties set out into the neighboui* ing hills. \fter hours of searching, someone noticed the child on the top of; a.precipitous and apparently inaccessible rock. However, one of the men managed to reach the summit, and there, to his surprise, he found the child sate and sound.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21314, 15 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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