But what do you think ?--if there wasn't an Owl's nest, up in a pine tree, with two eggs in it! It was in a very lonely place, and the miller said the Owl had borrowed an old Crow's nest and fixed it up a little." "I should think the eggs would have frozen hard and been spoiled," said Nat.
"No, the old Owl sat on them ever so tight and would hardly budge to let the miller see them.

We didn't stay long, for the Owl was a savage big thing, nearly two feet high, with yellow eyes and long feathers sticking up on its head like horns." "A Great Horned Owl," said the Doctor.

"I only wonder that it let the miller go near it at all; they are generally very wild and fierce." "This one was sort of friends with the lumbermen," continued Rap, "for they used to hang lumps of raw meat on the bushes for it, and they said it kept the rats and mice away from the camp and was good company for them.

It frightened me when I heard it first; it gave an awful scream, like a hurt person.

After a while another one began to bark like a dog with a cold, just like this--'who-o-o-o--hoo--hoo--hoo.' And, Doctor, one of the lumbermen told me that with Owls and Hawks the female is mostly bigger than the male.