Aesop's Fables
AN
EAGLE was once
captured by a
man, who immediately
clippedhis
wings and put him into his
poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with
grief. Later, another
neighbor purchased him and allowed his
feathers to grow again. The Eagle took flight, and
pouncing upon a
hare, brought it at once as an offering to his
benefactor. A
Fox, seeing this, exclaimed, "Do not
cultivate the favor of this man, but of your former owner, lest he should again
hunt for you and deprive you a second time of your wings."