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Show How Sea Birds Drink. Under the headline, Where Do They Get Water? a writer in the Young Folks' Catholic WTeekly says: "When I was a cabin boy I often used to vonder, seeing birds thousands of tiles ont to sea, what they did for fresh water when they were thirsty. One day a squall answered that question ques-tion for me. It was a hot and glittering glitter-ing day in the tropics, and In the clear sky overhead a black rain cloud appeared ap-peared all of a sudden. Then out of empty space over a hundred sea birds came darting from every direction. They got snder the rain cloud, and waited there for about ten minutes, circling round and round, and when the rain began to fall they drank their 11. In the tropics, where the great sea birds sail thousands of miles away from shore, they get their drinking water in that way. They smell out a i'.otbi a long way off; they travel a hundred miles maybe to get under it, ind they swallow enough raindrops to teep them going." New York Tribes Trib-es e. |