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Show A .MISSOURI STORY. Near Exeter, Missouri, a farmer dls- W covered, a large gray eagle, swooping S down upon ono of his lambs. He ran ft toward the bird but arrived Just as the lamb wjis being- lifted off the ground, 1 firmly clutched In the eagles talons. fj Ilq grabbed tho lamb by the legs and M struck at the eagle, but was dragged 0-$" ' fry $fi along tho ground more than, fifty feet ! and into a barbcd-wlro fence which so j : lacerated his hands and face that ho ; was obliged to let go his hold. Tho ; eaglo .never 'wnveied In Its do- termination, however, and -sailed away with the lamb and soon disappeared ' ; ; from sight. ' ' I'" |