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- [Newspaper clipping affixed to page, transcribed as follows]
[Times] Colonist Oct [October] 25/44 [1944] [written in pencil above article headline]
Courageous Woman Traps Huge Eagle
Few are the women who capture
eagles with their bare hands, and yet
Mrs. J.H. Parham, whose husband
has a poultry farm on the Braefoot
Estate, did just that.
Carrying a pail of feed across the
yard yesterday afternoon, she no-
ticed a commotion amongst the fowl.
Mrs. Parham dropped her bucket,
and going over to investigate, came
across a giant golden eagle which
had landed in the yard, apparently
to carry off its dinner in the form
of a Parham chicken.
She grabbed the eagle by the feet,
putting her arms over its giant
wings, and threw it into a vacant
chicken run a short distance away.
Mrs. Parham admits she wasted no
time in the execution of the action.
The eagle screamed when she
grappled with it and tore up and
down within the wire runway,
shrieking all the while. She thinks
that if it had not been for the op-
portune arrival of her husband,
home from work, it would have
beaten its way to freedom.
Mr. Parham killed the bird,
and found on inspection that the wing
spread was more than six feet.
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