The Peasant and the Eagle

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The Peasant and the Eagle
        A PEASANT found an Eagle captured in a trap, and much admiring
        the bird, set him free.  The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to
        his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which
        was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a
        bundle from his head.  When the Peasant rose in pursuit, the
        Eagle let the bundle fall again.  Taking it up, the man returned
        to the same place, to find that the wall under which he had been
        sitting had fallen to pieces; and he marveled at the service
        rendered him by the Eagle.