{"id":631,"date":"2021-07-04T05:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T00:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/?p=631"},"modified":"2021-07-11T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T04:52:16","slug":"631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/2021\/07\/04\/631\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles and Duckling"},"content":{"rendered":"

An eagle had made her home on a tall poplar. Her chick had just hatched but he was keen to fly. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMommy, I don\u2019t have any friends. I want to go out and make some friends,\u201d the baby eaglet told his mother. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The mother eagle didn\u2019t pay the chick any heed. Her only concern was to keep him calm and safe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou will fly one day. You will find many friends,\u201d she would tell him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Illustration by: Neha Kumari<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One day, the eagle went out to get food for the eaglet. She flew over a grassland and saw ducks and ducklings swimming in a pond. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The eagle dived in and grasped a duckling in her talons. The ducks shrieked and cried, but the eagle flew away with the duckling. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHere is your food. You can feast on the duckling,\u201d the mother eagle told her eaglet. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The duckling was panting and trembling. The eaglet saw tears had welled up in the duckling\u2019s eyes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are you crying?\u201d the eaglet asked the duckling. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI lost my friends and family. You will soon eat me up,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The eaglet didn\u2019t want to hurt the duckling. \u201cWe can be friends,\u201d said the eaglet. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCan we?\u201d asked the duckling. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d said the eaglet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Illustration by: Neha Kumari<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The eaglet pleaded to his mother to let the duckling stay in their nest as a friend. The eagle agreed. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The eaglet and duckling stayed together in the nest, playing and laughing. They had fun. But every evening, the duckling would miss his family and become sad. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Time passed and the two grew up. The eaglet was now old enough to fly. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I cannot fly with you,\u201d said the duckling. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will take you in my claws,\u201d said the eaglet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One day, the eaglet decided to move out of his nest. So, the eaglet grabbed the duckling in his talons and both of them took a long flight. The mother eagle accompanied them. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When they flew over the grassland, the duckling spotted his family. He instantly asked the eaglet to touch down. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As the eaglet touched down, the ducks, scared by the eagle, ran for their lives. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStop,\u201d shouted the duckling. \u201cI have come home. The eaglet and the eagle are my friends.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ducks came running back to the duckling and hugged him. They also hugged the eaglet. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow, you are our friend too,\u201d said the duckling\u2019s mother. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The eaglet was happy that he had found so many friends, and so was his mother.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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An eagle had made her home on a tall poplar. Her chick had just hatched but he was keen to fly. \u201cMommy, I don\u2019t have any friends. I want to go out and make some friends,\u201d the baby eaglet told his mother. The mother eagle didn\u2019t pay the chick any heed. Her only concern was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,153,152,154,11,155],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-children","tag-duckling","tag-eaglet","tag-friendship","tag-kashmir","tag-stories","enable-dropcap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}