Show fill A 4 I 1 I 1 R I 1 i r 4 I 1 4 C I 1 I 1 ir A W 1 ay Z 4 N it IV V it F 4 I 1 I 1 if I 1 I 1 pl amm I 1 cri t 77 I 1 STORMING A BIRDS CASTLE A BOY SCALES CUFFS CLIFFS TO CATCH THE TROPIC BIED A perilous reat peat yet the venturesome lad brought down in safety both the egg and its owner I 1 I 1 found my first drat tropic birds nott nest la in the island inland of 0 saint Eu Eus statius one of 0 the volcanic antilles in the caribbean seamy sly assistant without mm I 1 should have been unable to lonto iwato the liest was waa alexander a small bawn boy with curly hair and glossy the customs officers of the sleepy little tom ow n ot of orange the old dutch sort port of 0 saint gaint took look me down tile the shore in hla his bout boat willie while m ran n lone along the beach preferring th the e run t to 0 1 l ride AS aa great cliffs thrust themselves korosi the solids sanda into the rev at inter yale tale the iho boy frequently had to swim and wade but lie he took look off ills cloth clothes s they vere mere not very troublesome con misting only of it ragged start and tio trousers tiou nera users lied them in a a bundle on ills his lead and then sprinted along the beach over the great creat rocks and under the ledges beating the rowers out or oc time when me e reached the headland li dirion rion us its tumble ill able down dick however alexander was mas glad enough to it alm I 1 M out to the boat and he be taken in tor far tile the cliffs here were perpendicular even hollowed out into immense raves anve find the sea raged at their teet feet like a thousand demons in the boy bay beyond 0 m o were landed liter after much difficulty nil fill of us retting getting wet feet eel and being ielne roughly handled by th 3 loaves baves the boat visa ras sent out into smooth water mater beyond tb lb breakers and we hid our N I 1 oi 0 4 1 I I 1 1 1 re I 1 i ir t f I 1 aal Z 1 A t W I 1 7 i fi 41 r ry I 1 M E 7 t 1 I 1 it I 1 4 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 o I 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 fot I 1 I 1 k k C O t it 0 it I 1 6 it I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i TA 1 J I 1 X 10 I 1 a I 1 P an X Z 1 follos and a sited the coming of the troph bird thi th bird tile the customs told it L acate thu ot of tho the bar linn ican always leaving tile the mand island before tile the arrival of 0 those ter ebli and staying sway imay until chev aro over where ell they Y go 90 no to one nowa but when they return re t urn the aco ill bre breathe atle freely again knowing that there will ile be no to lure invie hurricanes bat fil bialon Bia aon asun Kome they d do 0 not t a all 11 vu I 1 t turn al rn and then their lite ablian la linders leno bileve that they line hae li ne been nl at sea they make their rude nesty jests in it to and on sli tives op on tile the cliffs well vell out all t of rf r tell ich ef S and hero here each pair I 1 cars a single young on nn lay ing in but one egg in a nest the male and remain rein alft birds take turns in brood iris inc over ever the ir Y egg and one la 1 always fou found n if athin the hole hoc artar aftic sitting there all night ons one of then them g foes 0 es out to 10 sea at al dallet dall ht to lish and p alay efty on allo caves returning return lne sit at about 8 9 to relieve tile the other which immediately flies away coming back about tho an fn middle iddle ot of the afternoon these birds cannot ny from frait a 1 I flat surface but bill have to launch themselves at once into tile air from an elevation ele el valion evalon buell as a rock or pre clittee os so a caught the they can safely be 1 ift ft en ell hie file level sands banda as they art arc wholly unable to ny fly though they will attel them alons ailing very rapidly with avith their beaks and they show va aniie avi ige ie alt and IUT cry out harshly it disturbed WO we climbed cautiously along alon the face of the cliffs v alch towered above our beads a IbO usand feet and more and I 1 little alexander who had resumed hl his tattered wardrobe ward iobe clambered light i have us un in ill pursuit of the lite young birds li nging to the almost perpendicular wall by him toes to arid and fingers lie he w u or 01 ked bcd his bis way to places I 1 should have con littered absolutely inaccessible linow know KIIS ing that in those pots the trophies as he called them would be sure to itald not only were the rocks pre arious to tolma tol climb mb but against nRal their ides were bet ct clumps of 0 the rul ruil hlikly r pear the llie stin sylves s of ahl which ell inott t bad wounds even if the hands an and 11 feet of JL a are arc pt protested by gloves and boots how the boy escaped these I 1 do not know but he evadue all 11 difficulties I 1 and at last shouted to us Is lint he tina found a nest wo wet wall t if in nit nil itty until at last he LIP alpiar likar d a 1 lonz ong I 1 way of up clinging to the rock 11 like ke a I 1 limpet holding his old hat can containing tabling an alga in his teeth und and a struggling biting of full in one hand it was no easy matter for or the youngster to descend that steep arid and slippery precipice keeping ills his grip grin that fiercely feht in ff bird and I 1 trembled for his safety lately until lie joined us ua lit at our shelter near the waves but tit last ho reached us tired anti trembling but taking no great credit to himself for u what hat a northern boy would mould have I 1 thought naught a M eighty feat and talked over or a w m ek eck it way was al now w time for the tha old birds barda to como come in from their sea trips nips so HO I 1 walled pun gull in bar hard lor for their appearance soon we saw them at a distance destanee dist anee daok loff ing like great creat swallows aw allowa ft bolth lib their pointed win and shapely fihar ely forms tit aliey arrive lt at A point in air far overlie overhead a 41 and seem to be out their rc dwelling places spen ing much iline in apparent wrangling tangling slid they so tool fool leh lall suld to dey d don no know dey own ties w which 11 it a appeared PPL od to bethe be the case oa its ti alny in mode ali many attempts benoie finally sett settlings lingI do down it for or good and lit all it I 1 Is a not to 0 bei be wondered it at this ron con fusion on or of ill the birds lat as to the identity of their when ten the general ire mam hamness ness of the cliffs in ij taken into account As I 1 have already remarked the perfect slim symmetry metry 0 of f the bird when nhen floating in ald nir deceives deoc alvea one as a to Us its real ical size and this was the cause of my many misses N when hen I 1 tried to shoot ti them em poled so far above me lite a or darting through the sky ky it has u bently ro bust beai body m when bell viewed v I 1 ad near dear at hand ie I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it 4 I 1 f I 1 7 4 1 0 r I 1 1 1 J I 1 b f I 1 k 1 4 I 1 l I 1 I 1 is q ea F i k I 1 ekl I 1 I 1 11 0 o 7 I 1 I 1 Q 11 i I 1 PIT I 1 T I 1 I 1 1 1 l k I 1 C I 1 IR F al I 1 Y W Y 1 I 1 I 1 MA t ra V V I 1 V af A 11 I 1 i il 7 I 1 J 1 I 1 9 f I 1 1 1 I 1 11 g I 1 X awl I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 il I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 N it I 1 V 14 1 ak aft 1 1 4 INI ill ts A I 1 4 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 it 1 I 1 1 za 1 V za I 1 V k I 1 I 1 I 1 T I 1 il I 1 r J C 41 kw k but front from the tip of 0 its beak to the end ot of its pointed tall tali with its two straw like feathers twenty inches long floating gracefully behind all h iff symmetry and grace no one would think thin it that the cIt distance Stance from rom up tip to tip lt c outstretched wings N yes was quite abr three e feet act nor liar that tile the bird was bigger 8 aien n at the g areat real helret at which it III s than tl 0 gull or sea swallow in ill came the file flying birds mith beaks down pointed and quivering fc fluttering in the air their creams could lie ile heard when they themselves were far ar away and it Is this shrill cry of theirs that has given them thu the name applied by pal lors of lite hie boatswain 1 I A OBER isn am all rich i reserved I 1 king loula philippe and it seems that I 1 e ile its da at work on art the at statue tue of at gon despagne the batters children limp bai to lo N i sit versailles the spectacle pre ditol d by tile tho th o artist in the very act of decapitating decapita ting tho statue of their revered parent was no BO great a shock attack that a one no of tho the ladies fainted on I 1 the lie spot A considerable outcry was raised about t the subject in the Par parisian islan press at tit alia a ahne but I 1 lie he authorities took no notice a thereof arid did not slop atop until new heads had been grafted upon sit all tho the statues at versailles when napoleon mr III came to ill the 0 throne after tile hie loup coup most moat 0 r tho the of oc the citizen king and of tho the fl of hla his relga tere cro decapitated lee ap I 1 and supplied d alth heads por per craving the features foa tures of napoleon himself of or of hla his ministers in franco france ll it la in customary that each perfect uie u i c 01 0 provisional governors gohei nors palace should be hi adorned with title fine or more statues arid and lul basis of the I 1 uler luler of the co country u alary for the time being as veil OH IS ft c alli h he of the minister till later of the in larlor every provine provincial lt is ii expected to in h ile 1 I mil arly w with 1 this difference I 1 that I 1 mt a b bust cot of the ach p c tj naster generao takis the place of that of tile the minister of th interior the same Is 14 the cast mith every public school its as well as aa with all the customs and inland revenue throughout through oui the iho length 1 and bre breadth alth of france of course it would never do la to re 1 to 1 i R z it I 1 7 k I 1 I 1 ta iii A 1 1 1 1 it 1 I 1 I 1 y 1 1 1 5 t U q S I 1 I 1 1 il jv 1 it r 4 V t A it I 1 Y 5 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 i i 7 r A W I 1 I 1 I 1 1 l iq I 1 anit T v e 1 11 11 4 I 1 r 1 k 1 I 1 I 1 Z 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 k X ina Z AIA I 1 1 ra IV to I 1 p 1111 I 44 I 1 I 1 1 1 i I 1 t 11 I 1 11 VV I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 f 1 N I 1 I 1 i I 1 11 I 1 0 o r I 1 I 1 it 4 egl I 1 A ll 11 i I 1 it I 1 I 1 2 I 1 jl I 1 irp 4 A 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 U ii I 1 4 11 I 1 itt J 11 1 ro 1 robbing the nest of the tropic bird |