The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-02-15
From the Museum.
HANNAH LAMOND AND The EAGLE

Some people have trick Of describing in
cidents as having happened within their
own observation, when, in fact, they were
at the time lying asleep in bed, and disturb
ing the whole house with their dormitory.-
Such is too often the character of the eve
witnesses OF the present age. Now, would
not claim personal acquaintance with an in-
cident had not seen--no, not for fifty gum
eas per sheet; and, therefore, l warn the
reader not to believe the following little
story about an eagle and child (by the way,
that is the Derby crest, and favorite sign of
inns in the north of England on the alleged
authority of the writer of this article. i
tell the tale as twas told to me- by the
schoolmaster of the parish alluded to above,
and if the incident never occurred, then must
he have been one of the greatest and most
gratuitous of liars that ever taught the
young idea how to shoot For my single
self am by nature credulous Many ex-
traerdinary things happen in this life, and
though seeing is believing so likewise 'be.
licving is seeing as every one must allow
who reads the following pages of this Mag
azine.
".llmost all the people in the parish were
leading in their meadow hay (thcrc were not
in all its ten miles aquare, twenty acres of
rye grass) on the same day of midsummer,
so driving was the sun and wind--and huged
heapcd up wains, that almost hid from view
the horses that drew them along the sward
beginning to get green with another growth,
were moving in all directions towards the
snug farm yards. Never had the parish be-
fore seemed so populous. Jocund was the
balmy air, with laughter, whistle and song.
But the Tregomers threw the shadow OF
"one O. clock" OH the green dial face of the
earth-the horses we're unyokeG and took
instantly to grazing-groups ofmen, women,
lads. lassies and children, collected under
grove, and bush, and hedgerow-graces
were pronounced, some of them rather too
tedious, in presence of the mantling milk
cans, bullion bars of butter, and cracking
cakes; and the Great Being who gave them
, that day their daily food, looked down from
=, his Eternal Throne, well pleased with the
piety of his thankful creatures.
t The Great Golden Eagle, the pride and
the pest of the parish, stopped down and a.
| way with something in his talons. One sin.
. gle sudden female strickland then shout:
, and outcries as if church spire had tum
F., bled down on a congregation at sacrament
"Hannah Lamond's bairn!" Hannah La
monds bairu! !" was the loCd fast spreading
cry.-" The Eagles ta'en off Hannah La
| mopd's bairn!'' And many hundred fee
were in another instant hurrying toward
! the mountain. Two miles of hill and dale
/ and copse, and shinglc, and many intersect
2 ing brooks lay between; but in an incredi
! bly, short time the foot OF the mountain wa
. alive with people. The eyrie was vel
S known, and both the old birds were visibl
= on the rocklege. But who shall scale tina
S dizzy cliff, which Mark Steuart, the sailor
e who had been at the storming of many tort
r attempted in vain. All kept gazing, weep
n ing, wringing of hands, rooted to tn
Z: ground, or running backward and forwards
n like so many ants essaying their new wing
t in discontinue.
!: "What's the use o. ony puir huma
1t meanss We hae no power but in prayer !
j, and many knelt down-fathers and mother
t; thinking of their own babes-as It they woul
IS force the deaf heavens to hear!
Hannah Lamond had all this while bee
e sitting on rock, with face perfectly white
t. and eyes like those of mad person, tixe
d on the eyrie. Nobody had noticed her; TO
ID strong as all sympathies with her had bee
ir at the swoop of the Eagle, they were no