Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-12-08
Saved by an Eagle.
IN the gtory of ..WankeMa,s Eagle

In the story of "Waukewas Eagle"
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d.-A al VINO saved d wouHueu eaglet,
eLu lursed 1T back tc 9yreA : "a, and
foGnG year later, taat III Go.As 30 he
ha,r cast mis- bread uDon tne wa.eis.
ne rlite2 were full oi samoa, big
lu4ty lehOws. VINO glloed SJout his
CAME On every side in al endless sill
Yer StI an. Waukewa pluA sea his
SPEAR r.-Lt and ieIt, ai1i tGsss III one
| gliCterIrS vIGlIm aIJer anothor into
the BARK canoe. SO absorbed in the
notlce when the head of the rapids was
reached and the canoe began to glide
more swiftly among the rocks. But
suddenly he looked up, caught his oad-
ole and dipped 1t wildly in the swirln =
Wa.er. The canoe swung sldewise
aA.yered, held its own against the tor
le"l. ald then slowly. inch by inch,
began to creeO upstream toward the
shUle. But suddenly there was a loud,
crdel snap, and the paddle parted in
| the boys hands, broken just above the
blade! Waukewa gave a cry of de-
| spairing agony Then he bent to the
gunwale of his canoe and with the
shattered blade fought desperately
against the current. But it was USE
less. The racing torrent swept him
downward; the hungry falls roared
tauntingly in his ears.
Then theIndian boy knelt calmly up
right in the canoe. facing the mist of
| the falls. ard folded his arms. His
young face was stern and lofty. He
| had lived like a brave hitherto-now he
would die like one
Faster and faster sped the doomed
canoe toward the great cataract The
black rocks glided away on either side
| like phantoms. The roar of the terri
BILE waters became like thunder in
the boys ears. But still he gazed
calmly and sterRly ahead, facing his
fate as a brave Indian should At last
he began to chant the death-song,
which he had learned from the older
braves. In few moments all would
be over. But he would come before
the Great Spirit with a fearless hymn
upon his lips.
Suddenly shadow fell across the ca
noe. Waukeiwa lifted his eyes and saw
a great eagle lowering over, with dang
ling legs, and a spread of wings that
blotted out the sun. Once more the
eyes Of the Indian boy and the eagle
met; and now it was the eagle who
was the master!
With a glad cry the Indian boy stood
up in his canoe, and the eagle hovered
lower. Now the canoe tossed up on
that great swelling wave that climbs to
the caitaracts edge, and the boy lifted
his hands and caught the legs of the
eagle. The next moment he looked
down into the awful gulf of waters
from it's very verge. The canoe was
snatched from beneath him and plung-
ed down the black wall of the cataract;
but he and the struggling eagle were
floating outward and downward
through thecloud of mist. The cata-
ract roared terribly. like a wild beast
robbed of its prey. The spray beat
and blinded, the air rushed upward as
they fell. But the eagle struggled or
with his burden. He fought his way
out of the mist and the flying spray
His great wings threshed the air with
a whistling sound. Down, down they
sank, the boy and the eagle, but evel
farther from the precipce of watel
and the boiling whirlpool below. A
length, with a fiuttering plunge, thu
eagle dropped on a sand-bar below thu
whirlpool, and he and the Indian boy
lay there a minute. breathless and eX
hausted. Then the eagle slowly lifted
himself, took the air under his FIRE,
wings, and scared away, while the In
dian boy knelt on the sand, with shin
ing eyes following the great bird til
he faded into the gray of the cliffs
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