Show D darchas aa rall q ED A 7 1 fairia F a i tale al a e GRAHAM EAGLES OF FREEDOM 1 I 1 alah ish I 1 could leave the nest now mother eagle said eddy nagle eagle yes and me 1 too wild said eddys sister bister r amith I 1 ith 0 A in just a little littie 4 while saia mother eagle air heidem en em b e r young eagles that tha you only came into tills world a short abort time ago remember that thab when you were hatched I 1 0 our u r weeks after I 1 had laid the dull white you were nothing but very sup superior arlor little creatures who fly at all hut but as I 1 laid ray my two tine fine eggs in february and did not wait until the early part of 0 march AS some borne mother eagles do you will be allowed to leave the nest barly in july oil oh mother eagle bald eddy 1 I wish I 1 were a full grown eagle I 1 do indeed and ana I 1 wish no BO too suld edith eagle bagle how allow long will it be mottier con eddy before I 1 have a white head and neck and tall I 1 am such buch a dull brownish color patience eddy patience said mother eagle toward tile alie end of tho the second year you will show signs of the white appearing under your tall but you must reach your third birthday to be a full grown bald baia kagle engle with the white head it tales takes a long time to do things eddy said to himself and as his mother laughed a great noisy harsh and broken laugh ile he thinks he h has as dla discovered something new she said to herself As it will take years for or us to be grown up and na as we are still only your little eagles will you tell us as IL a story mother alother engle eagle urged eddy yes I 1 will tell you a story said mother eagle i e and gladly for it to Is a story I 1 arn am very proud of telling which I 1 am about to tell you now its a story no other bird nor any ani animal mill nor any fisk ast can tell only a bald eagle can tell this story the two eagles sat eat by their mother in the nest high high up in a great pine tree their mother and father had bad had the same nest for a number of years our cousins the golden eagles commenced mother eagle aria are larger than alian we are they are very superior and alne in every way but I 1 am not surprised they given this honor lion or they arent as sociable as we are they dont go to so many places as we do lakes and ponds and rivers and seaside places they dont fly over so many people but keep to the mountains as as a rule NOW tc we are 10 the birds chosen chose by the united states to be tho the national emblem of the country yes over ever these and ponds pond and str streams eams and takes lakes over the land and the trees and the people we will fly and know that int we are the birds biras of this coun try it that we tire are so ed wonderful or so unusual N no the golden engles are larger and more ful fill hut but that what the country wants they want to haye have as an em cm blem a bird who flies files far but who just live in one little part of the land hut but little engles eagles here la Is another great secret we are famous for our wonderful eye s ight bight and eo r 0 tills country which a always 1 w a T 6 looks for the light anil and the truth and the right ling has chosen us too because weare we are birds with clear a strong t rong true eyesight and were birds of the air were great free eagles and as we perch in our high trees or as we fly ov over er the A full grown water or the bald eagle hills we are as gloriously wonder fully free as any creatures under the run buu these people are freel free go 90 th they ey have chosen us ui mostly for that great reason that we are as they are and always will be freel freeli I I 1 then the little eagles calling in high vols voices of their pride and joy flew off from tile tho nest tor for the arst ars time on what was s really the fourth of anly I 1 |