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And then full of admiration for his soldiers, he exclaimed; "I am satisfied with you; you have covered your eagles with undying glory." From a military point of view Austerlitz was Napoleon's greatest triumph. War, which he loved with all its risks and emotions, then showed him its most tempting side. He was always tempting fate, and fate had always favored him.
A nation in such a temper will surely be taken at its word. Where the carcase is, there the eagles will be gathered together; and there will not be wanting to such nations as there were not wanting in old Greece and Rome despots who will give them all they want, and more, and say to them: "Yes, you shall eat and drink; and yet you shall not die.
The fresh remembrance of the peril he had passed through in obtaining it, no doubt stimulated him to this resolve. Birds of his species will sometimes outfly and escape the eagle that is, some eagles, for these bird-kings differ in degrees of swiftness as hounds or horses.
Just as he had accomplished this to his satisfaction, and was about to undo the imprisoning shirt, it flashed across his mind that it was lucky the old eagles had not been on hand to interfere. He glanced upward and saw the dark form dropping like a thunderbolt out of the blue.
And by and by he found himself wondering, not what kind of baseball he would play on the morrow, but whether he would be good or bad in first aid that night. He came to troop headquarters after supper with a queer, nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach. Outside, the Eagles were making one last hurried practice of the business of making a coat stretcher.
"No, it was not right!" retorted Akka. "Say what you will about the eagles, they are proud birds and greater lovers of freedom than all others. It is not right to keep them in captivity. Do you know what I would suggest? This: that, as soon as you are well rested, we two make the trip together to the big bird prison, and liberate Gorgo."
"This is a marvellous thing to hear," said the man; "and if you are indeed to be my son, I fear it will go ill with you; for I am bitter poor in goods and bitter ugly in face, and I shall never get me a wife if I live to the age of eagles."
"You were quicker than any of them," cried Andy in his ear. "Stretchers," called Mr. Wall. "Lift the patient in and stand at attention. Patients must not help themselves. Got your staves? Ready? Go!" A yell burst from the watchers. "Go on, you Eagles!" "Chew them up, Foxes; chew them!" "Faster, Tim; faster!" Tim's coat was off and on the staves. His fingers fumbled with the buttons.
I never saw any troubled with this disease around Meeteetsee or Stinking Water. I have been there in winter, and hunted them as late as November, and Col. Pickett used to kill some still later. I never heard him speak of the scab." In spring and early summer, when the young sheep are small, the eagles are constantly on the watch for them, and unquestionably capture many lambs.
As I lingered, gazing on the vast show, luminous shadowy clouds seemed to increase in glory of color and motion, now fondling the highest peaks with infinite tenderness of touch, now hovering above them like eagles over their nests. When night was drawing near, I ran down the flowery slopes exhilarated, thanking God for the gift of this great day. The setting sun fired the clouds.
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