The Golden Eagle
A man found an eagle's egg and placed it under a brooding hen.
The egglet hatched with the chickens and grew to be like them. He clucked and cackled; scratched the earth for worms; flapped his wings and managed to fly a few feet in the air.
Years passed. One day, the eagle, now grown old, saw a magnificent bird above him in the sky. It glided in graceful majesty against the powerful wind, with scarcely a movement of its golden wings.
Spellbound, the eagle asked, “who's that?” “That's the king of birds, the eagle.” Said his neighbour. “ he belongs in the sky. We belong to earth – we're chickens.” So the eagle lived and died a chicken for that's what he thought he was.
... don't be a chicken ... very good advice. be a meerkat if you're gonna be anything, they're much funnier
Friday, December 22, 2006
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