AFFECTIONATE EAGLES.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12765, 11 April 1910, Page 4

AFFECTIONATE EAGLES.

A man working on a farm one day saw an eagle fluttering over the barnyard, no doubt meaning sooner or later to swoop down in search of prey. He determined to save his chickens, and fetching a gun, fired at the would-be robber. But he only succeeded in injuring its wings. Instead of falling to the ground it flapped about in the air ma sort of way, uttering loud cries of,pain. The "man was justgoing to fire again when he noticed another eagle coming up in the distance. It was evidently the mate, of tho one he had wounded, for it (^e- straight to its rescue. Seeing that the "first eagle- could not fly away "itself, the -newcomer seized its wounded mate with itsibeak and claws, and half-carrying it helped it to fly slowly away to the mountain . side, where it put it down, as it thought, in a safe place. For a whole week the men oh the farm saw it, day after day, oarrying food to the disabled bird. It would have been quite easy for them to have killed both birds during this time, but the farmer forbade his men to molest them in any way, because he was so pleased at tne affection and courage the one had shown on behalf of the other. .*■■-