The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-30
THE STORY A FLORIST TELLS.
Eagle Tried to XIII Him for Inter-
ferinG With His Breakfast.
Ellsworth (Me) Letter to the Bangor
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terfnE with His Breakfast.
Ellsworth CMe) Letter to the Bangor
Commercial.
Florist Nelson who lives on the Nor
way Drive, much frequented by Bar Har-
Dor tourists in summer tells of wonder
full happenings about his home in the
woods. Wilson has Travelled all over the
world according to his own stories and
has been Observation-Disclosures. He has rails
ed the most attractive children on Mount
Desert Island ana in summer one of the
sights is to see his five little girls, rang
ing in age from four to eleven years. all
of the same complexion, dress, and blonde
hair, being petted by the women of fash
ion. They are named Pansy, Violet, IN
dine, Daisy and Lily.
Another of Wilson's claims to distinc-
ton is his happy faculty of telling tales
of the woods about his home. His latest,
which is corroborated by friend, con-
Germs the big crap eagle which has been
seen among the Mount Desert hills for
years This is said to be the largest eagle
ever seen in this part of Maine. Wilson
has a chicken incubator on his small farm
and has raised quite a flock of fowl for
market. Lately he has been counting less
each day until he began to suspect chicken
thieves. Running out one morning to the
hen yard i'm response to great clucking
of hens, quacking of ducks, and general
hubbub in the barn yard, he was Just
in time to see big gray eagle soaring
heavenward with his pet bantam rooster
in his talons.
A few mornings later Wilson looking
out of his window at sunrise, saw the self
same noble bird of prey sitting, like the
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movably upon a high post in front of the
incubator waiting for some one to appear
and open the poultry yard for his break
fast.
Wilson lodged into the room and got his
shotgun. He hadn't fired off this particu-
lar firearm in many months. He fired at
the eagle. The next thing he remembered
was his wife and children standing over
him bathing his forehead. The gun had ex-
ploded, and the eagle did not linger long
about the post
Then he set out to catch Mr. Eagle, and
set trap on the smooth top of the barn
yard post. The eagle must have steered
shy of the trap, for in few days Wilson
was rewarded by finding big black crow
entangled in the trap.
Next comes the most remarkable part of
the story, and as Wilson exhibits evidence
supporting 1t, people believe it is true.
Working about his flower houses one day
a week later Wilson suddenly espied the
gray eagle about 100 feet above him cir
cling about and holding something strange
1t its talons. Wilson dropped his tools and
stood gazing intenty at the strange sight
The eagle was directly above him and
seemed to be trying to get line on him
from the sky. With his wings outspread
he seemed as large as a balloon parachute
Suddenly the dark object fell from his tall
ons and came whirling downward. Wilson
tFsin To A1Au~ fr.N l.,@
the revengeful eagle swooping down upon
him. Crash! Four or five panes of glass
In the roof of the flower house were SHAT
tered and the object fell with thud
among the flower pots.
Going inside he found deers head The
horns were intact. but the head was a
mere skeleton, from which the flesh had
nearly all fallen off. The eagle had evil
IDENTIFY tried to let the head fall upon Will
son out of revenge.
Attracted the same day by the sight of
big fiocks of crows and hawks coming
from all directions to a piece of woods
near by, he went down to investigate
There must have been 500 crows fighting
over the corpse of young deer. They
had stripped the fish from the bones and
a double score of them were squabbling
for the choicest bits remaining.
The deer had evidently been shot by
some peoacher, TO rthere is a law against
SAAbOtihS NSSA OAi NlOuDl OCSNTI ISlan0.
Wilson has the deer skeleton head as a
memento of the eagle who attempted to
kill him.
Those who watch the habits of birds
which inhabit the sea coast tell many in
teresting stories of their sagacity. The
same gray old eagle used to make Rodick
Island his favorite roostiug place. Large
fish-hawks and thousands of gulls also
haunt the islands near by on account of
the plentifulness of fish and food. When
fish are scarce the gulls take a novel
method of opening CLAIMS which, with the
receding tides, are frequently left bare
upon the bar. One will swoop down, get
a clam, and then ascending about 100 feet
into the air let it fall on the rocks When
this performance is going on there are
always a few lazy gulls watching, who.
when the clam strikes the rocks, dart
thither and stead the meat. Then inva-
riably ensues a fierce fight of the birds
and occasionally the bald-headed old eagle,
from his eyrie, will take hand and, with
a swish of his broad wings, knock out
two or three gulls and pick away at the
clam food himself.