Science: Eagle Power

Cooing contentedly, the little girl toddled out the front gate and started down the road. A swift dark shape which had been wheeling in the blue sky plummeted down. It was an enormous eagle. The little girl saw the sinister shape, flinched and screamed, but the fierce talons closed on tender flesh, the child was caught into the air, and with powerful pinions beating, the eagle headed for its eyrie. At that moment the child's father spreng out the door with his rifle. Without an instant's hesitation, risking the child's life if his aim...

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