Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — An Eagle Attacks Two Little Children. [ARTICLE]

An Eagle Attacks Two Little Children.

In Lake county, Minn., while little Augustus Burr, aged 7 years, was playing with his equally little sister, near his home, down upon the juvenile party came an enormous eagle, throwing the two children to the ground and attempting to carry off the smaller one. Then was exhibited the prowess of the small Augustas. Into the house he went and out he came again with a butcher knife, and that savage bird’s legs he proceeded to cut and whack and slash. Naturally, the indignant eagle left the girl, and engaged with the boy, knocking him over, tearing his little pantaloons, and scratching him severely. The childish screams soon brought the mother to the scene, and the impudent eagle flew to the top of the barn, and sat there, still hungry for the little girl. But neighbor Joe Betzler came, and with his gun shot that eagle, and when they measured him they found that it was seven feet from one of his wing-tips to the other. The little Augustus should hereafter be called Augustus Ctesar.