Show Residents of 01 St. St Kilda Rely on Bird Birds for tor Food St St. Hilda KlIda fifty miles west of ot the Outer Hebrides Is only three miles long and two miles broad and being very rocky Its Ita Inhabitants have to be pretty wide awake to make a living to ro a great extent they depend upon lea sea birds for tor their food supply and andone andone andone one fowler has been known to catch birds in a single day The fowler sets seM out with a long deal pole nine or ten tea feet long with a horsehair noose at the end Ond camouflaged camouflaged camou camou- by br gannets gannets' quills Puffins are numerous on OD the Island and the fowler creeps as near the birds as pos poe without giving them the alarm thrusts forth his rod along the ground works the noose close to an on unsuspecting tog ing puffin and very cry cr drops the noose over o the birds bird's head and secures It The birds are treated much like Uke herrings herrings her her- rings except that they need a R preliminary preliminary pre pre- plucking When that Is le done donethey donethey they are open kippered and hung In long strings string across the cottage cell cell- ing lag In this way war they will keep for tor foran foran an Indefinite period and provide n puffin breakfast at et a moments moment's notice |