Show residents of st kilda celyon birds for fod st kilda fit fifty miles west ot of the outer hebrides Is only three miles long and two miles broad and being very rocky its inhabitants have to wide awake to make a living to a great extent they depend upon sea birds for their food supply and one fowler has i been known to catch birds in a single day the fowler sets out with a long deat deal pole nine or ten feet long with a borse horsehair hair noose at the end camouflaged by gannets garnets gan nets quills puffins are numerous on the island and th the a fouler ton ler creeps as near the birds as possible without giving them the alarm thrusts djs rod along the grou ground iLd works thi the noose noose close to an unsuspecting luflin and very drops the noose oter over the birds bird head bead and secures it it the te ards t ards are treated much like herrings rl 1195 except that they need a preliminary plucking when that Is done they are split open en zippered kippered kipp kapp ered and hung in long strings across the cottage ceiling bof in this way they will keep for an indefinite period and provide a puffin breakfast at a moments notice |