Baby Eagle
A baby eagle lost his parents. He fell from his nest to the ground, but he could not fly yet. A man found the baby eagle and took him to a farmer. The man told the farmer, “This is a special chicken that will grow very big.” The farmer looked at it and said, “It does not look like a chicken.” The man said, “Yes, it is. You will be happy to have it.” So the farmer kept the baby eagle with his chickens. The baby eagle grew up with the chickens. He learned to act like them. He scratched the ground to find worms and ate like the chickens. One day, an eagle flew high in the sky above the farm. The young eagle looked up and thought, “What a beautiful and powerful bird! It is so free.” He asked a chicken, “What bird is that?” The chicken said, “That is an eagle. But do not worry about it. Eagles fly and hunt. We are chickens. We stay on the ground and eat worms.” The young eagle believed this. He went back to scratching the ground like the chickens. He lived his whole life thinking he was a c...