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Show A KUe Story. Some fishermen engaged in Belfast lough recently picked up a very large I seagull which was seen approaching j the boat with wings outspread, floating : on the water, but quite dead.' The men were puzzled to account for the progress it made through the wter, as it went faster than the boat; but as it came near it was found that, wound securely round the body and under the wings, was a string or cordage, which on closer examination exam-ination they discovered was attached to a larg8 paper kite then flying above thorn at a considerable height The kite furnished the propelling power. The bird had evidently, while flying at Belfast, Bel-fast, got entangled in the string of a boy's Trite, had been unable to extricate itself, and taking to the sea had been drowned in its efforts to obtain freedom, i Exchange. |