A PLUCKY PRINTER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1334, 6 September 1886, Page 3

A PLUCKY PRINTER.

Compositors in newspapers cffic?s are not usually a very adventurous class, and have, in truth, but Htt’e opportunity for manifesting their ftowess by exploits of daring. A young printer, connected with the local press at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, has just, however, distinguished himself by a successful raid op an eagles nest, which was perched on rooks some five hundred feet high at Ke e. The young fe’low was lowered over the prec.— pica a distance of a hundred and fifteen feet, but the rope pioved even then <OO short, and he bad to clamber down the dangerous rocks eraongst which it landed him, until he re cbed the eagle’s retreat. In the nest were two birds apparently about a month old, and when he attemp'ed to selzs them the more powerful eag'e{S"( the two fixed its talons in his arms. He contrived, however, to wrap both of his vigorous assfi'ants in his jersey, and, regaining the rope, after a perilous scramble, ascended safely to the summit of the mountain, holding his jersey and ifg struggling burden meanwhile between his teeth The desesnt, capture, and occupied an hour and a half, and the only wonder in the locality Is that the am a t*ur cragsman did not break h's f«ok*