As he neared the village the children came rushing out to meet him, shouting happily. 'The goat came home on its own!' When they saw what was in his hands, they were quiet and amazed. 'What is it?'

'It's an eagle chick that fell out of its nest in the storm, so we will have to look after it.'

The farmer put the chick in the warm amongst the hens and their chicks. 'The eagle might be the king of the birds, but now it will learn to be a chicken!'

The eagle looked less and less like a chicken as the days went by and the children often

pointed it out to their friends as it happily pecked at the scraps in the yard.