70 CHILDREN'S BOOK FOR SABBATH HOURS.

 Job says, My days are passed away as been thus seized by the eagle. It is a
the eagle that hasteth to the prey. The curious fact that he never attacked rag-
prophet Micah says, Enlarge thy baldness ged people going to the house the back
as the eagle; that is, that they should way. It was only when they attempted
cut off their hair in time of mourning, to enter through the front door that he
should be naked and stripped like an assailed them.
eagle when it moults its feathers. He had some other curious habits;
 The allusions in the Scriptures to he did not go out every day to get break-
eagles are very many and very instruc- fast, dinner and supper; his custom was
tive, and our young friends will be great- about once a week to make a hearty
ly interested in taking the Concordance meal, and that was sufficient for six days.
and their Bible and looking out the nu- His most common food was the king-
merous passages that refer to this noble bird, of which he would catch sometimes
bird. ten in the course of a few hours, and
 Mr. Goodrich and other writers on these would suffice for his weekly re-
natural history have given many inter- past."
testing incidents respecting the eagle. In Norway, some years ago, a boy,
Mr Goodrich relates the following: about two years old, was carried away
 "A man in Connecticut shot an eagle by an eagle, in the sight of his parents,
of the largest kind. The bird fell to the who were unable to save their child. A
ground, and, being only wounded, the mother, in one of the Orkney Islands,
man carried him home alive. He took lost her infant in this manner, but, hav-
good care of him, and he soon got well. ing seen where the eagle had built its
He became quite attached to the place nest, she hastened to it; and although
where he was taken care of, and though the place was difficult to get at, and the
he was permitted to go at large, and often eagle very fierce, she succeeded in re-
flew away to a considerable distance, he covering her child.
would always come back again. In Switzerland, many years ago, a lit-
 He used to take his station in the tle child was carried off by a bird of prey.
door-yard in the front of the house ; and On the same day that the accident hap-
if any well-dressed persons came through opened, a huntsman had hid himself near
the yard to the house, the eagle would an eagle's nest, to wait for a shot at the
sit still and make no objections; but if bird, as he approached the place. After
a ragged person came into the yard, he having waited for some hours, he at
would fly at him, seize his clothes with length saw one approaching slowly to-
one claw, hold on to the grass with the wards the rocks, appearing twice as large
other, and thus make him prisoner, as a common eagle.
 Often was the proprietor of the house The hunter's surprise was great, when
called upon to release persons that had he saw that the bird carried a child in



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