FIGHT WITH AN EAGLE.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 590, 10 May 1876, Page 3

FIGHT WITH AN EAGLE.

“A fight with an eagle,” remarks the Warrnamhool Standard, “ should be somewhat of a novelty, but we can vouch for the veracity of the gentleman who supplies us with the following particulars of an adventure on Mount Shad well ;—For the double purpose of getting an appetite for his matutinal meal and obtaining a view of the surrounding country, the gentleman in question set forth at early morning for the summit of the mount, and iu his progression up its sides he was attracted by a large bird which appeared high in air, gyrating and describing a variety of graceful evolutions, which the pedestrian paused at intervals to admire. As he ascended the more apparent became the proximity of the bird, and its movements now struck him as being singular, if not suspicious, for in its swoop it w'as gradually lessening a cucle which it had been performing round a point which the traveller was bent, on attaining. The crown of the mount was at length reached by the pe’estrian, who was no longer left in doubt as to the nature and intention of his feathery acquaintance'. It w'as a large eagle, beat upon resenting the biped’s intrusion upon his solitude. Swooping down it came, with the apparent purpose of bearing the pedestrian off to bis eyrie, as in the famous story in the children’s book, but the fortunate po : session of a stout stick, with which the traveller laid about him vigorously, prevented such a dire consequence, presuming the inhabitant of the clouds to be capable of effecting his supposed intention. The eagle allowed himself to be struck at several times, but at length gave up the combat and retired, much to the relief of the gentleman, w’ho had got rather more diversion than he had antipated, or indeed, than he desired, during his morning’s exercise.”