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Eddy Eagle Rebels

By Ruby Bell

Eddie was tired of schoolwork. Someone was always telling him don't do that, you have to go here, do this, do that. He was fed up with it, so when the professor came to class one day and said, "I am giving you a break for three days. You may do as you please, except go to the caves. That is never a wise thing to do. It is dangerous and we have had some young eagles die in there. Eagles were not made for caves they were made for the skies."

Eddie was feeling very rebellious, "If I want to go to those old caves I will." He muttered to himself. He was homesick but would never admit it to anyone. He went off by himself, just feeling sorry foe Eddie. He flew to the top of a large tree and just sat there watching the others fly away in different directions. "They don't care about me." He told himself, “No one asked me to go with them."

The truth was he had disappeared so fast the other Eagles didn't know where he went. He began to fly around looking for something to interest him. What he saw was Harpy eagle at the cave entrance. Harpy was looking inside the cave. He went in a little ways and came back out, then he went in and didn't come out for a long time. All at once he tumbled out the opening with feathers flying everywhere. Harpy scrambled away from the opening and as soon as he could, he flies away, looking back over his shoulder every little bit. "I wonder what scared him?" Eddie said to himself. He circled a while then landed in front of the cave. Eddie peaked inside the cave it didn't look dangerous at all. You could see way back in there. He was still talking to himself, "There isn't anything dangerous here. I'll just prove it." He bravely walked inside all the way to the back. He saw there was an opening to the side he couldn't see far here, but stepped in a little way and began to turn around, as he did something hit him in the back of the head, and he fell forward. Eddie scrambled up and tried to find the way back out.

He ran into the wall and something else hit him. He began to flap his wings to knock the thing away and bruised them on the walls. Then he heard a hissing sound. There was some kind of cat in here. He remembered the little cats at the ranger station, but this sounded much larger. It was growling and hissing, then everything was quiet. I need to get out of here, he thought. Eddie made himself as small as possible and turned his head all around looking for a little light. He saw it, just a dull glow. That must be the opening, he began to inch his way toward it. The cat screamed and jumped at the same time Eddie leaped for the opening. He made it by inches, but the cat was not giving up this time. As Eddie leaped into the air the cat landed just where he had been setting. Eddie flew in a circle to see what kind of cat it was. He didn't know its name, but it was larger that Spot and a yellow brown color with a long tail that twitched back and forth as he looked up and hissed at Eddie flying overhead. Eddy just couldn't resist the urge he flew in closer to the cat and screamed at it. The cat surprised him by jumping up almost hitting him with its big paw.

Eddie decided it was time to leave the area. He flew away to his favorite fishing hole. After resting a while and smoothing his feathers he caught a fish and had a good meal. He decided to find a place to spend the night. As he looked around, he saw the Harpy down on the lakeshore trying to catch a fish, but he wasn't having any luck. He seemed to be injured. Eddie flew out, caught a fish and dropped it in front of the other eagle.

Eddy was feeling much better, after his narrow escape. Helping the other eagle brought him back to reality. Life was not just about him; but being a friend when he could, made life much better. I think Eddie learned that adults do know what they are talking about. He planned to pay attention the next time and avoid some trouble.

Don't rebel at the rules you are told to follow. If you do it will bring you trouble. Eddie could have been badly hurt he was lucky he only had a terrible scare. What have you learned this month? I hope you didn't have to learn your lesson the hard way like Eddie did. ©2022 FaithWriters.com. All Rights Reserved >

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Eddy Eagle Makes A New Friend

By Ruby Bell

Eddie was growing up he was almost as big as father eagle. He would not have his white feathers for another year, but he felt like he was grown and did not need someone to boss him around anymore. Each morning Eddie went to the lake to fish for his breakfast. He was proud of his fishing skills. He remembered he catch fish he knew he could lift. Father Eagle was not be around to help him like he had before when Eddie got excited and locked his talons on a huge fish and almost drown because he could not lift it out of the water. This morning he was enjoying his fish in the top of his favorite tree, watching some crows steal food from the ducks along the lakeshore. The crows were having so much fun they did not even eat the food they stole, simply dropping it in the lake and looking for someone else to steal from.

At first Eddie was upset with the crows, then he began to think how funny the ducks were, waddling after the crows trying to get the food back. Besides there were a lot of crows he told himself and there was only one of him. Maybe he should try to be friends and he could teach them to treat the other birds kinder. When the crows tired of their game and stopped to rest Eddie flew over to the tree they were in. "Hi fellows, looked like you were having a good time over there with the ducks."

One crow seemed to be the leader, he answered Eddie "What business is it of yours? We didn't hurt anyone." "I know that it just the crows looked at one another and seemed to smile. "Sure," the leader said "Those ducks just catch the little bony fish."

Eddie flew out and caught a big fish and brought it back. "Here you are boys, have a good breakfast." "I think we will need another one we are pretty hungry. By the way I am Black Jack." Eddie caught another fish, more crows had come and wanted a fish, so he caught another one, and another one. Eddie lost count of how many fish he caught that morning, but he was proud to have made some new friends on his own. The next morning Blackjack and the others were waiting for Eddie. They didn't give him a chance to eat until he had caught fish for all of them. As they watched him eat Eddie asked, "What do you usually eat?" The crows laughed, "caw, caw, we steal something, sometimes we have duck eggs or baby ducks."

Eddie said, "I am sorry to hear that, you shouldn't be so mean to other birds." All at once a shotgun blast rang out and the crows that could flew away. Eddie didn't know what to think, but he saw the man pointing the gun toward him, he jumped straight up. His strong legs saved his life. The tree limb he had been on broke in several pieces as the blast tore into it.

Eddie was pretty shaken up by the shooting. He flew to the other side of the lake and stopped to rest on a high rock. He thought he was alone, until he heard a cough. Looking around he found an old hawk on the other side of the rock out of the wind. Eddie started to leave, and the hawk said, "Don't leave on my account I am too old to bother you. I been watching you all morning; I saw you yesterday too." Cough, cough, cough. "When you are hanging around with that crowd, makes others think you are like them. Are you?" Eddie looked surprised, "No I wanted to teach them how to treat others better." "They are fooling you boy, I heard them laughing about the way you fished for them. They don't plan on changing. They just want what you can do for them." "Cough, cough, cough, cough. You better be careful, the next time that man might get you with his shot. He just doesn’t like them crows one little bit. Cough, cough, cough." Eddie didn't like the sound of that cough, "Can I get you something? You sound awful."

The hawk shook his head, "You better stay out of sight for a while that man might be waiting for you. I just need a little sun."

Eddie and the old hawk sat in the sun and watched all that went on around the lake. Eddie could see a long way. The hawk would ask, "What do you see now?" Eddie would tell him about everything he saw. "I see a man and a little boy fishing across the lake. Uh oh, the crows are coming back. I see something in the bushes behind that old tree. The crows are landing in the tree to look around. The ducks are gone because of the man and boy." They heard another shotgun blast. "Boy, look at the feathers fly. A lot of crows were hit in that blast. I am glad I wasn't there." Just as the sun went down, Hawk looked at Eddie and said, "You have to be careful, who you hang out with. Their trouble can become yours' easy, just from you are being seen with them." When the sun came up, Hawk didn't wake up. Eddie had promised him to fly south to a lake he knew of. Eddie began his flight with a shrill whistle of goodbye to Hawk……… Fly high Eddie! ©2022 FaithWriters.com. All Rights Reserved >

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Eddy Eagle Learns To Fly

By Ruby Bell

The Eagles started school so late they had to go to Summer School. They need to learn to fly before cold weather. At school Eddy noticed a very strange looking slide, it looked like it had been pulled apart, the ladder was on one side, a big sand pile in the middle then the slide was by itself. Eddy climbed up the ladder to look the strange thing over. After a while he began to wonder how he was going to get down. It was hard enough to climb up, he didn't think he could climb back down. He was stuck.

The Goose saw him and laughed, ha, ha, ha you are stuck. You must fly to get down and you will crash in the sand pile. You won't catch me climbing up there , I am too smart for that. Ha, ha, you might as well jump so I can see you crash.

Eddy remembered watching father eagle fly. He remembered he jumped as high as he could on takeoff. As he thought about flying like father eagle he got excited and jumped as high as he could, a puff of wind caught his wings as he spread them, and he was in the air. He flapped his wings a couple of times, he was flying! When he tried to look back to see the other birds, it made him turn so he circled back to the slide, folded his wings, and landed. Eddy stood on the top of the slide and stretched as tall as he could looking at the other birds as they looked up at in wonder. "Wow, how did you do that?" "Don't tell and I'll teach you" Eddy said. Then he slid down just as the bell rang.

Eddy had not been told yet he would have to learn to fly before he could graduate from school. He was afraid he would get in trouble for climbing the slide.

Inside the classroom Eddy got in trouble again for looking out the window. He was wondering if father eagle saw him fly, and was hoping to see him flying by the school.

Teacher was grumpier than usual and to punish Eddy for looking out she taped paper over the window. Eddy just sat pretending to listen. Then something Teacher said caught his attention. Something about someone going a long way off to the moon. Eddy began to listen, he thought 'I would like to be a long way off, I don't like this mean old teacher.' He heard the teachers say "the moon shines at night, when it is dark just look up, you will see it if the clouds are not in the way".

Eddy had seen a bright light at night over on the hill past his cage, he decided it must be the moon. Teacher said "it takes a long time to get to the moon." Eddy thought ' I bet I can fly there really fast'.

As Eddy sat dreaming about going to the moon, the afternoon soon passed. By the time the bell rang Eddy had made his mind up to fly to the moon as soon as possible. He would practice his flying while he taught the other birds to fly, then he was off. He knew he could find his way.

The next day Eddy climbed the slide and squawked for all the others to gather around so he could teach them to fly. "You jump as high as you can then spread your wings. He jumped and nothing happened. The wind wasn't blowing, again he jumped and flapped his wings, but he forgot to keep his wings out because was watching to see how impressed Goose was. Crash! he hit the sand pile.

That made him so-o mad he stomped to the ladder and climbed back up. He could hear everyone laughing, this time he didn't look down. He jumped, flapped, and flew off. He was going to keep going, but he heard Ella and Chicken Little calling to him , so he circled back. The other birds were still laughing and making fun of Ella for calling to him. That made Eddy even madder, he landed with a scream and took after them pecking them with his powerful beak. They ran screeching to teacher and Eddy knew he was in trouble again. He turned to Ella and Chicken Little, "don't be babies, I'll be back" he said. As the teacher came out the door with the ruler to swat him, Eddy gave a big jump and flew away, as teacher stood there with her mouth open. Then she laughed and waved at him, "way to go Eddy," she yelled. Later she called Ranger and told him about Eddy's flight. She thought perhaps he would need to look for Eddy in case he got lost. Eddy made it back to the cage later that evening. He was very tired but was still planning a trip to the moon as soon as he was rested. He found it was very tiring to fly and boy was he hungry.

Eddy found out Teacher wasn't mean, but only wanted them to learn. He had learned you learn a lot by watching others, just as watching his father fly had helped him fly.

Will Eddy go to the moon the next time? ©2022 FaithWriters.com. All Rights Reserved >

FOOD FOR THOUGHT The Shadow!

"Shall we indeed accept good from God — and shall we not accept adversity?" (Job 2:10)

Shall we trust our Father only when our lives are lled with pleasant things — and then not trust Him also when a shadow falls over our hearts? Do you think that God is good — only when He makes all things, please you?

Our call is to always trust God — whether good or bad. For even if sorrow should enter our home, He is able, even during sorrow, to make our home-life sweeter, purer, and more Christ-like. If we trust in God, then the shadow will be as rich a blessing to us as the light; and the sorrow will be steps upward, on which our feet may climb Heavenward! "We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."

(Romans 8:28)

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight!" (Proverbs 3:5-6)

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