THE YOUTHS CABINET.

Birds- Nesting.
‘su% following story is translated
‘© from the German of Ludwig Pech-
steiti, and is narrated by an Al-

pine huntsnran. |
A hunter from Mollis, when pursuing
the chatiois, had gone as near’ as possi-
ble to a dangerous spot where one of
those anirials was standing, and fired at
her, Just as his piéce was discharged,
a golden eagle flew close over his head,
and by the cry of the bird the man was
certain that there was a nest of young
ones hard by, built amiong almost inac-
cessiblé précipices. The hunter loading
his piece’ again, atid hanging it on his
back, took off his shoes, clambered up
the rocks, and gained possession of a
hazardous fddthold fron whence he
could ldok into’ the nest arid take hold
of it; but ke had one hand only at lib-
erty, being obliged to Hold fast: on the
rock witl the other, in order to save
himself from tumbling’ headlong into the
giddy gulf beneath; though giddiness

befallsno gewuimé chamois’ hunters; for’ |
they consider the drinking of the fresh |

blood of the chamois, as' a specific

against vertigo. Just now, however, at |

| QUAKER was not long since exam-
| ined in England befor’ a board of
JO Commissioners of Excise, respect-

the very moment when the huntsmen
was clutehing the young’ ¢dagles, who
were almost fledged’ im the nest, down’
flew the old one and pounced her claws
into the huntsman’s collar; she ther
pecked at: his face and head, with her
beak, now mangling one, and then the
other. The man’s: situation became
frightful, and he in vain endeavored with
_ his one free hand to protect himself from
the wrathful bird, who defended her
young with desperate fury. He could
not extricate his hand, because she was

 

tearing away with claws and beak upon

his collar and shirt. Almost powerless
he drew back from the eagle, as scream-
ing louder and louder and flapping her
enormous wings, she dashed upon him
again, and while with one hand hé clung
convulsively to the precipice, hé so turn-
ed his fowling-piece with the other which
was at liberty, as to bring the mouth of
it in the direction of the bird’s body. In
this fearful position he succeeded in pull-
ing the trigger, the piece ,went off, and
the eagle fell beside him. Streaming
with blood and lacerated to torture, the
huntsman must have perished had not a
comrade come to his assistance, who
helped him down from the precipice,
bound up his wounds, and gave him
some refreshment, though the poor fel-
low fainted a number of times. en
carried’ to his home, he lay in a swoon
for half an hour, and passed three
fourths of thé ensuing year under the
care of physicians and surgeons.

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The Quaker and the Commissioners.

ing’ certain duties. The: commis--

-sioners pretended to consider themselves.

insulted’ by the thecing and the thouing
of the quaker; and one of them, in a

“pretty stern tone’ df voice, said, “Pray,

sir, do you kriow what we sit here for?”
“Yea,” replied Nathan, “I do—somie
of you for a thousand pounds a year,
and others for seventeen hundred and
fifty.” |