Show dd dadds Y fairy I 1 ry idle le I 1 AW GRAHAM BOWER nning if i HARRY HERRING GULL said bald harry herring gull to ahle brownie who had come to cull call dim bim and who was ras sitting bitting by the A g of a great river 1 I was a little alre ifray agg SKI was spotted with ark ek 1 imell I mean of course as doubtless you er stand that tile tho egg later inter camo 80 me was spotted with black lat at 11 not tile the ways way pe perhaps rimps I 1 should it ak but its ita harry herring gulls ia I 1 and it if im ill not smart in book knowl e and in schooling and in talking id in all such stich ways im smart us as a 11 I 1 and gulls aro are smart oil 6 yes harry herring gull con oed for years and years there have sn B gulls csome ome of my ancestors were here tien tile indians owned tile the country poll oil yes wo we have always been aut malting making our ways fit in if with le e ways of others which Is always ise 11 1 I am hero here now for the winter 1 I ai s born in an ugly little home but that make any differ ce we fly about rather than stay uch inch in our homes for those who core care for their homes Is s well to mako make tile the homes beautiful ut jt not for us wo we tire are quite satisfied with a 0 abby nest of weeds and any kind of akst st building trash our homes pre are in hollows in the round I 1 had one sister and one rother who came out of their eggs at lie be same time I 1 did we ive were ivere covered with down and e could swim find run and were con ered pretty smart little herring ils of course all herring gulls in thi valare TO are ON t till all smart bt bit lie the mothers say ay tile the same barns thing andover as each now new group of downy 3 begins to swim and run a arent they smart little gulls 1 I lam am hero here toe for the winter as I 1 sald said qa 1 I am here for the winter rou foa will notice that my head and beck aeck are grayish grayl sli brown in color in the summer I 1 shall wear a white suit with ith a gray and I 1 shall have touches of black and white for style my lly summer costume Is gayer gaper and lighter brighter than my winter costume ich I 1 think Is right it Is nice to see creatures put on ir light clothes in the summer slimmer dont at you think so billie brownie brownder Brown ler indeed I 1 do billie brownie an but do tell me more abndt yourself As you jou can see I 1 have a yellow teak cak with a red spot for a beauty nark mark and my eyes are yellows yellow my feet ire re a pretty pink color colof when I 1 was a n little fellow I 1 had pink dink beak too with a black spot but of course the colors I 1 now have te show that I 1 am a grownup her dog ig gull for we do not get these colors at y ast the older ones dress differently m the younger ones wien when summer comes I 1 must go furer aher north of course ft a few members bembera if ay y family famely may stay around here but t they anvill in be the ones who do not we about summer homes or little fotoes es of any sort not the home lovers among BB 0 berring erring gulls for we love to blud and our nests and have our homes en D though we dont care to make em beautiful we lve dorn dont care to nake them beautiful beautt ful because we like hafl flyaway from thern them a great deal and bale ave adventures tut anve like to have them just the yos yes we like to bund build our nests tm a b v have ave summer slimmer homes k cack eack cack that Is the W tb 1 I I 1 hla harry y herring gull flew off I 1 blin for or billie brownie had thanked 11 0 and had bidden him ra a roost most polite v afternoon aitor noon I 1 I 1 |