Show EAGLE AND DOG IN BATTLE scotch game gam e keepe had exciting experience with great bird before it was vanquished it 11 Is usually difficult to get into close contact with an in eagle but an in aident reported by tho the westminster gazette la Is to EL i different effect not long ago it seems when a keeper was wae proe proceeding eding through olen glen laragan near to inspect the moor attention was attracted atti acted by the becu liar har movements of 0 a grouse passing him blai in close aroxi proximity mity and lying flying low the bird dropped between him and his dog and the keeper right ly IY judged that it had bee been n pursued glancing behind he saw a alne men inen ol of the golden eagle which how bow ever on being observed swept away through the air across the She angan va valley hey after marking the spot where the grouse giouse had fallen fraser proceeded on his journey returning through the same pass in about two hours time As he neared the he place where he had seen the eagle rain commenced te tc fall and whistling to Ms his dog fraser took shelter lie he had not been sit ting long before he was as considerably startled by the swish of pinions binlon coupled with an almost simultaneous sharp pain in hla his ankle A glance round showed that tha t if lie c eagle and his dog were in q combat ambat and in swooping the eagle had seized upon erasers leg just as aa the d dog og and bird got to close quarters the fight was a fierce one but ultimately vie tory lay with fill the dog so firmly had the engle eagle fixed his talons into the keepers kee pors ankle that the birds leg had bad tobe to be severed the claws are being retained as a memento of 0 the he fact dent |