AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief. —
Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow again. —
The Eagle took flight, and pouncing upon a hare, brought it at once as an offering to his benefactor. —
A Fox, seeing this, exclaimed, “Do not cultivate the favor of this man, but of your former owner, lest he should again hunt for you and deprive you a second time of your wings.”