A mountain eagle The tragedy of little sins
Illustration★★★★near Gunnison, Colorado, which had been feasting on rabbits, recently met its match. Ferrets had been brought into the valley to kill rabbits. The eagle swooped down upon a ferret. The ferret caught the eagle by the throat and the bird flew far into the air. Only a few minutes elapsed till the eagle came tumbling down. The ranchman who had watched the mid-air battle ran to the fallen bird and found it dead. The ferret had bitten through its throat and was still clinging to it. Many a man has taken some secret sin to his bosom, thinking it so small and easily hidden that there would be no danger; but the sin, like the ferret, has sharp teeth, and to cherish it means certain disaster.
The point
An eagle preying on ferrets is killed when one ferret bites through its throat; the moral warns that cherishing secret sin leads to certain disaster.