Show WT EAGLE AND hd 6 ay JN BATTLE scotch came keeper had exciting experience with great bird before it was vanquished it la is usually diCi cult to get antt close contact with an eagle but ao an in eident reported by the ANestra westminster laster gazette Is 1 to a different effect not tong long ago it seems when a keeper wai was proceeding through glen laragan near dear banatte Il to inspect the moor hie his attention was attracted by the becu liar movements of a grouse passing him in doc close proximity and dying low the bird dropped droppel between him hina and hie his dog and the keeper right ly judged that it had bad been pursued punned glancing behind he saw aw a tine fine erect men of 0 the golden eagle which bow how ever on being observed red swept kway away through the air across the Ghea ngar alley ralley after marking the spot where the grouse bouee had fallen fraser proceeded on hie his journey returning through the lame same pass in about two bours time As A he neared the place where he had oen seen the eagle ruin ron commenced tc fall and whistling to his hl dog fraier fraser tool boox shalter lie had not been sit it ung long before he be waa was considerably tartlet tart start leJ lel by the swish of platens platons coupled with an almost harp sharp pain in his ankle A glance round showed that thit the engle angle and his dog were ere in combat ind and in swooping the eagle had seized upon fraser a leg just ax as the dog and bird got to close quarters quart cre the fight was a fierce florce one but vie vic lory tory lay with the dog do so caraly had the eagle fixed axed bis his talona talon 11 1 into ato the keeper keepers a ankle that the bird birde leg had lo 10 be evered severed the claws are being retained as a memento of the lent |