AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided tolive near each other. The Eagle built her nest in the branchesof a tall tree, while the Fox crept into the underwood and thereproduced her young. Not long after they had agreed upon thisplan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones,swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the littlecubs, and feasted herself and her brood. The Fox on her return,discovered what had happened, but was less grieved for the deathof her young than for her inability to avenge them. A justretribution, however, quickly fell upon the Eagle. Whilehovering near an altar, on which some villagers were sacrificinga goat, she suddenly seized a piece of the flesh, and carried it,along with a burning cinder, to her nest. A strong breeze soonfanned the spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledgedand helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead atthe bottom of the tree. There, in the sight of the Eagle, theFox gobbled them up.
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