Show A RARE BIRD I 1 1 why an american showman could not gat get it for his museum when the eminent french writer write r ferdinand Brunet lere visited the united states some years ago lecturing at Il harvard arvard and other leading universities he had an amusing using experience which he described in the tile recollections of his american tour which he afterward published the great litt litterateur erate u r devoted much attention to the life and an d works of Bossuet bo who was often styled the eagle of Meaux Caux on accod account ut perhaps of his big lofty flights of eloquence this fact with others bothers pertaining to t 0 his 1113 literary career was mentioned by borne some dally daly papers during bis his stay in this country it caught the eyes of a shrewd abre dAme american showman who however got somewhat mixed over the meaning of the tile allusion all he wrote the following letter to the french author siri sir 1 have just heard that a certain meaux eagle vry very celebrated it appears ap peara in your country ha has become your exclusive property now I 1 am the man vitlem aldr of a museum in one of 0 tho the largest clotea in the states this meaux eagle whose reputation haa has been enhanced by b your eloquence would certainly not fall fail to excite the curiosity ot of my public it if you will let me have the rare bird and tell t 0 11 me how to feed it you can quote your own Brunot lere politely explained that the rare bird bad been dead for nearly years |