. Some of Aesop's fables : with modern instances shewn in designs by Randolph Caldecott . was away foraging, the Eagle,being hard pressed for food, swooped down into the bush, snatchedup the cubs and helped her own fledglings to devour them. Whenthe Fox came back and saw what had happened she was not somuch vexed at the death of her young ones as at the impossibilityof requital. For the Eagle having wings and she none, pursuitwas impossible. So she stood some distance away and did allthat is left for the weak and impotent to do—poured curses onher foe. But the Eagle was not to put off for long
. Some of Aesop's fables : with modern instances shewn in designs by Randolph Caldecott . was away foraging, the Eagle,being hard pressed for food, swooped down into the bush, snatchedup the cubs and helped her own fledglings to devour them. Whenthe Fox came back and saw what had happened she was not somuch vexed at the death of her young ones as at the impossibilityof requital. For the Eagle having wings and she none, pursuitwas impossible. So she stood some distance away and did allthat is left for the weak and impotent to do—poured curses onher foe. But the Eagle was not to put off for long the punishmentdue to her violation of the sacred tie of friendship. It happenedthat some country-people were sacrificing a goat, and the Eagleflew down and carried away from the altar some of the burningflesh. But when she had got it to her eyrie a strong wind gotup and kindled into flame the thin dry twigs of the nest, so thatthe eaglets, being too young to be able to fly, were roasted, andfell to the ground. Then the Fox ran up and, before the Eagleseyes, devoured them every
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