Once a farmer found an abandoned
eagle's nest and in it was an egg
still warm. He took the egg back to
his farm and laid it in the nest of one
of his hens. The egg hatched and
the baby eagle grew up along with
the other chickens. It pecked about
the farmyard, scrabbling for grain. It
spent its life within the yard and
rarely looked up. When it was very
old, one day it lifted up its head and
saw above it a wonderful sight - an
eagle soaring high above in the sky.
Looking at it, the old creature sighed
and said to itself, "If only I'd been
born an eagle".
