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An Eagle was chasing a hare, which was running for dear life and

was at her wits' end to know where to turn for help. Presently

she espied a Beetle, and begged it to aid her. So when the Eagle

came up the Beetle warned her not to touch the hare, which was

under its protection. But the Eagle never noticed the Beetle

because it was so small, seized the hare and ate her up. The

Beetle never forgot this, and used to keep an eye on the Eagle's

nest, and whenever the Eagle laid an egg it climbed up and rolled

it out of the nest and broke it. At last the Eagle got so worried

over the loss of her eggs that she went up to Jupiter, who is the

special protector of Eagles, and begged him to give her a safe

place to nest in: so he let her lay her eggs in his lap. But the

Beetle noticed this and made a ball of dirt the size of an

Eagle's egg, and flew up and deposited it in Jupiter's lap.