The Ledge on Bald Face

A shell tears the roof from an eagle’s cage—and the bird does not rush for the sky. First, he has a fish to claim.

In a city shuddering under bombardment, an eagle watches buildings topple and the creatures around him vanish in smoke and flame. Long imprisoned, he has learned to despise his human keepers; when a shell finally opens his cage, the way to freedom is narrower than it looks. Charles G. D. Roberts’s animal stories set the instincts of wild creatures against sudden danger, from the chaos of a city to the perils of the wilderness. The eagle escapes the bars—but can he find his way back to a world beyond them?

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