Fairy tales from far and near

FAIRY TALES FROM FAR AND NEAR
By Katherine Pyle
The Christmas Angel As the Goose Flies Nancy Rutledge In the Green Forest Wonder Tales Retold Tales of Folk and Fairies Tales of Wonder and Magic Fairy Tales from Far and Near
Then the two old Eagles flew away. Frontispiece.
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY KATHARINE PYLE
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1922 Copyright, 1922 , By Little, Brown, and Company. ——— All rights reserved Published September, 1922 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

There was once a poor peasant woman who sold milk. Every day she filled her cans with milk and went to a near-by town and sold it, returning with her cans empty.
One day, when she set out she took her little baby daughter with her. In each hand the mother carried a milk can, and the baby held to her skirt and walked close beside her.
Suddenly two great eagles appeared, wheeling about in the sky, and one of them dropped down and seized the child and flew away with it; the other eagle, which was its mate, followed it.
The woman cried aloud and dropped her milk cans, and ran along after the eagles, but they quickly disappeared in the distance. The woman beat upon her breast and wailed bitterly, but nothing she could say or do could bring her child back to her.