Chapter 70Are You Chicken Or Eagle?
A little boy who lived in the mountains found
an eagle's nest in a tree high on a rocky crag. In the nest
was an eagle's egg. The boy took the egg home and placed
it in a hen's nest under a setting hen. After being placed
under a succession of setting hens, the eagle's egg finally
hatched, along with the chicken eggs.
The baby eaglet played with the baby chicks
and of course thought he was just like them-a chicken.
Since the eaglet believed he was a chicken he,
of course, lived and acted like a chicken. He did not try
to fly, but remained with the chickens in the fenced-in
chicken yard. Yet, as the eagle grew bigger and stronger,
there came a realization inside him that made him feel that
he was more than a chicken-he felt the urge to Hy. After
a few tries, the eagle began to believe he really could Hy.
And because he believed he could-he could!
So he stretched his mighty wings and began
to fly ... higher... higher ... higher... until he reached