Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — Wounded Eagle. [ARTICLE]

Wounded Eagle.

A wounded or enraged eagle is an ugly antagonist. L. C. Brinkman, of Burlington, had an encounter with a wounded eagle not long ago* which he does not care to repeat. While hunting he fired at an eagle and broke the bird’s wing, but did not otherwise injure it. Expecting to make an easy captnro of his prize he went forward. To his surprise the eagle flew at his face, and had he not warded it off with his arm his eyes would’have been put out by the savagb bird. As it was, it gripped his arm, and, despite his efforts to free himself, he could not shake the eagle off. It struck at him with his sound wing, dug its sharp talons through his clothing into his arm, and used its beak most viciously. He called to his friends a short distance away. They came and killed the bird, and then pried its claws out of the flesh of his forearm and leg, which were badly lacerated. *- Mr. Brinkman’s wounds were quite serious. He will bear the scars for many a day.—Youth’s Companion.