 | David Diefendorf - 2007 - 262 Seiten
...the river, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk [osprey]; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a...the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him." Franklin insisted the bird is not only a thief but also a coward, because the bald eagle is easily... | |
 | Jeff Pate - 2007 - 180 Seiten
...perched in some dead tree where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish and is bearing it to his nest for his young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes the fish. With all this injustice, he is never... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1817 - 596 Seiten
...on some dead 1 tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour of the fishinghawk ; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a...mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and lakes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but like those among men who live... | |
 | John CARVER (J.P., of New England.), Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge - 1842 - 296 Seiten
...perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing-hawk, and when that diligent bird has at length taken a...to his nest for the support of his mate and young, the Bald Eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice, he is never in good case,... | |
 | 1878 - 628 Seiten
...on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watchee the labours of the fishing hawk ; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his neat for the support of his mate and the young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him.... | |
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country ; he is a bird of bad moral character ; he does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches... 
