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Show EAGLE AND PORCUPINE FIGHT . ' TO THE DEATH. , ' I ill Recently a fierce fight took placo j, in Nevada county, California, between ;i an unusually largo porcuplno and a ;j hiigo Golden Eagle. , It was a royal duel unto death, and . . ji was witnessed only by a rancher. Tho porcupine was badly mangled by tho beak and talons of tho flerco : eagle, but tho llttlo animal fought .' back furiously, and finally gave tho II great bird its death wounds. Tho cjaws of tho bird were pricked ' so full of porcuplno quills that they looked Hko pin cushions, and driven so hard they could, with difficulty, bo II pulled out of tho calloused feet Fights between tho caglo and porcu- ; V Pino aro very raro Indeed. J. M. ,' Baltimore, Cal. L1 |