A story of an eagle

Arthur Ma

I am reading a book which is really very difficult to understand,but there is a story in it which is both interesting and plain: A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen.The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.All his life the eagle did what the chicks did,thinking he was a chicken.He scratched the earth for worms and insects and would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.Years passed and the eagle grew old. One day he saw a magnicifent bird above him in the cloudless sky.It glided among the wind currents with scarcely a beat of its strong wings.The old eagle looked up in awe."who's that" he asked."that's the eagle,the king of the birds,"said his neighbor."He belongs to the sky.We belong to the earth--we're chickens."So the eagle lived and died a chicken,for that's what he thought he was.