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Show HATTIA1T WHITE WINGS. In many of the Haitian coast towns the only department of atreet cleaning that there la consists of pelicans that roost on rocks in the bay and fly heaVHy Into town each morning to shovel up the refuse Into their pouches. Although the black population of the small republie does not care enough about cleanliness to provide means for sweeping the streets, still the people are glad enough to have the pelicans do It. So there is a heavy penalty for shooting at one of the birds. As a result they are perfectly fear'tess and will flap Into a street and waddle along right Into the crowd. Vhey arrive from the sea with their pouches empty and wrinkled and go along with their huge bills close to the ground like road scrapers. Gradually the pouch Alls with all kinds' of rubbish and there is always enough and to spare In the Haitian town and at last It is distended and full of knobs and -corners like a badly stuffed carpet bag. Then the pelican rises heavily and fiapa away to hia roost. |