Animals: Eagle's Meat

Cold ran the blood of a Finnish farmer one day in 1931. His 2-year-old child had been playing outside his cottage near the Russian border. Now the baby was gone. He and his friends searched far & wide, found no trace.

Last week, near the farmer's home, lumbermen brought down a tall pine tree. High in the branches they spied an eagle's nest. They came close to examine it. What they found made them cross themselves. There, surrounded by tatters of baby clothing, lay the skeleton of a 2-year-old child.

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