He then began to gather up the fallen sticks of the old nest, and to break off new sticks and to construct a new nest.

The old chief watched him with pride, and, turning to the master, said: "Ah-a--that is my boy.

He be me.

I was he once--it is gone now--what I was." When Benjamin had made a nest he descended, and at the peril of his own life, on the decayed limbs, he rescued the two young eagles that were hanging with heads downward and open beaks.

He carried them up to the new nest and placed them in it, and began to descend.
But a withered bough that he grasped was too slender for his weight, and broke.