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Shepherd’s Daily Dinner
Eagles
sometimes built where not even a rope-dancer could get at
them, a sad case for shepherds, who were accused of concealing
the whereabouts of their nests when in accessible places.
It was said that they tethered the eaglets to the nest long
after they could fly, because until the young birds left the
nest the parents never
ceased to bring quantities of all sorts of game to feed them,
quite half of which was said to go into the shepherds’
larder. A shepherd admitted to me that he once took a salmon
quite fresh out of a white-tailed eagle’s nest. Fawns,
hares, lambs and grouse were
brought in heaps to the nest for months, an agreeable variety
at the shepherd’s daily dinner of porridge and potatoes
and milk.
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