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108.The Eagle and His Captor
AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who at once clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the eagle was weighed down with grief.
Later, another neighbor bought him and allowed his feathers to grow again. The eagle took flight, and pouncing on a hare, brought it at once as an offering to his benefactor.
A fox, seeing this, exclaimed, “Do not cultivate the favor of this man, but of your former owner, lest he should again hunt for you and deprive you a second time of your wings.”
