"Nay, but," said the man, "what if some evil befall me?"
"Sit on me, I say!" cried the eagle.
So the archer sat down upon the bird.
Then the eagle bore him nearly as high as the big clouds, and then let him fall. Down plumped the man; but the eagle did not let him fall to the earth, but swiftly flew beneath him and upheld him, and said to him:
"How dost thou feel now?"
"I feel," said the man, "as if I had no life in me."
Then the eagle replied:
"That was just how I felt when thou didst aim at me the first time."
Then he said to him:
"Sit on my back again!"