[nukkad] Give It a Second Thought

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Give It a Second Thought


An American Indian tells about a brave who found an
eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a prairie
chicken. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks
and grew up with them. 
All its life, the changeling eagle, thinking it was a
prairie chicken, did what the prairie chickens did. It
scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. It
clucked and cackled. And it flew in a brief thrashing
of wings and flurry of feathers no more than a few
feet off the ground. After all, that's how prairie
chickens were supposed to fly. 

Years passed. And the changeling eagle grew very old.
One day, it saw a magnificent bird far above in the
cloudless sky. Hanging with graceful majesty on the
powerful wind currents, it soared with scarcely a beat
of its strong golden wings. 

"What a beautiful bird!" said the changeling eagle to
its neighbor. "What is it?" 

"That's an eagle - the chief of the birds," the
neighbor clucked. "But don't give it a second thought.
You could never be like him." 

So the changeling eagle never gave it a second thought
and it died thinking it was a prairie chicken. 


The Christophers
Bits & Pieces
Economics Press





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