Show lighthouse as bird trap the night watch of the cape may lighthouse was chatting with a vis aitor when something struck hard against the netting around the light the watch went out upon the tiny circular balcony and returned with a dead bird in his hand A mud hen said he sometimes we get five or six in a night often we find robins and ducks dead on the balcony its a fine life you lead here remarked the visitor yes it it for the oil the six gallons of oil that the light burns nightly the government wont give us any machinery to hoist it up with consequently every day I 1 must carry the whole six gallons up these steps hard on the heart it must be agreed the visitor it would be so easy to rig up a rope and pulley too and draw the oil up that way it aint allowed said the watch in every oil burning lighthouse the attendants must carry up the oil by hand it does scein plop he slipped out to get another mud hen |