Charles de Coster. The legend of Eulenspiegel, and lamme Godsake, their valiant, funny and glorious deeds in Flanders and other lands (№ 448712)

I am an owl, an ugly owl, I kill to feed myself and to feed my chicks - I do not kill for the sake of killing. You accuse me of sometimes destroying a brood of birds, but you exterminate everything that lives.