"See you," said the echo.

"Ho, ho, ho!" laughed the boys.

"Ho, ho!" laughed the talking shadow.

That evening Pineknot came running to the cave, calling, "O Thorn, I
was coming along on the high rock, and I heard little cries. I crawled
through the bushes and looked over and saw a nest full of young eagles.
They were skinny and had no feathers on their bodies. The nest was
made of sticks; and oh, it was big, and there was a lot of feathers in
it!"

[Illustration: A nest full of young eagles]

Pineknot stopped for breath.

"Go on, go on," said Thorn, "tell more."

"As I looked, a shadow bird went over the rock," said Pineknot; "and
then down dropped the mother eagle with a snake in her claws."

"Oh," cried Thorn, "I wish I had seen it."

"The young eagles held their mouths open," Pineknot went on, "and their
mother fed them with the snake, a little bit at a time. When the snake
was all gone, the mother eagle waved her big wings and flew away. Then
the young ones' heads fell down. They were asleep."

A day or two after that, Thorn came into the cave with an eagle's