The Eagle and the Rabbits.
An eagle came to a litter of rabbits, and bore off the young ones. The parents, in the most piteous accents, prayed the tyrant to spare their offspring; but in vain: he tore them to pieces before their face. The sorrows of the injured pair collected together the other inhabitants or the warren, who, determined to punish the invnder, mustered all their forces, and, in two successive nights, undermined the tree on which the eagle had built her nest. On the third night a violent storm aro»e, and blew down tho tottering trunk : the nest descended with it, and the eaglets, incapable of flii'ht, wfre either dashed to pieces, orbeenme an° easy prey to the savage beasts of the forest, while" the injuied rabbits beheld their ruin unhurt. The moral of this fable inculcates a wholesome lesson to the overbearing great ones of this wortd. The mighty and most secure should avoid offending the poor and humble ; for the latter, when united, ore more than a match for tho insolent and oppressive.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 3, Issue 55, 30 January 1851, Page 4
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177The Eagle and the Rabbits. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 3, Issue 55, 30 January 1851, Page 4
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