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Show I WDDTi EVENING I I tigm TALE BlllW'A Mary tirahnnx BHP PoMwy - MB .. H THE SEAGULLS. BM "f tt n i going to te'l .Mii h story," 1'ilrt BM Mi Seagull to the young Seagulls. BM "Wluit Ik It to be about?" nkcd the BM voting Seagulls, for every tittle while BM Mrs. Seagull would tell them a story, Bf but nlwn.vs they would (tat beforehand BM what It Ml going to bt iibout. BM They didn't tu nracli what she BM told them nlioiit. but they had grown BM Into tln vmv of asking her what she BM WB8 going to tell t Ik-iii. BM "It's mi old. old story." aha Mid, BM "nod my dour. dsnr rrini t . great grand- BB mother told It to me It's :ui old rtorv B willed him come from Scotland, n Innd BJ across the sen. mid mm my dear great, BB great, gtcut grandmother?" BB "Did the story come from Seotlunil BB or did your dear groat, grout grand mother nnd our denr great, great. BM great grandmother nnd your denr BJ Blent. Brent grandmother." " Hot ti cnme from Seotlnnd." s, . BM sniii. "The story mine from there, BM and so did my denr great, groat crn ml BB mother mill your denr great, Brent. BM groat Brmidmother." BM "Are all stories nnd till Kent-nils H Scotch r nskeil the little Kengulls. BM "That Is-tiro thoy nil Seoteh first '.'" BM "Oil, 110," said Mrs. SeiiKUll, "th.lt BM Is very Ignorant of you to think Rich BM H thltiB. Hut I nm Bind you naked mo MB about It for you will never know nny- BM thlliB unless you find out ubout It. BM "Stories come froin nil hinds, nnd BM people COBM from nil l.'itnK nnd so do MB niiiiiinis nnd birds nnd emu ling ereti- BM inn- Some certnln klmN of poopln BM mini' froiu ccrtulu Countries mid some BM certain kinds of nnlmnls come from BM cortaiti eoiintrlos. BB "The Seagulls lovo the COMt. We're BM water birds. Wo lovo the roaring MB ui-enii and the rivers which empty Into MB tin oceans wo like (hem at their very BM Olid you hoc, when they heroine friend BM ly with dear old Mother Ocean. BM "The Seagulls lovo the coasts. Ah, MBV how we do lovo the roasts," H "We know that," said the little Sen- BM gull. "Wo know about Hie things wo Baa jp - H "Liked to See the Seagulls." BB care for, but we wondered If oni'O BB upon a time every Seagull had lived In BB Scotland mid if every story had been B tlrst told there." BB "No," sahl llfax SoiibiiII. "only this BB piirtlcnlnr story I am B"!iib '" '''" "" BB wns told down through the Seagull BB family, and through a branch of the BB SoiibiiII fuuiily which came from Scot- Bfl BB 'I hoy heard the sloi.v there there BB where the consts nre wild and rugged BBT mid where the Seagulls sour. Bill Sen- gulls mid stories are not only Scotch. MB gracious, gracious no. Seagulls me BB Irish, Seagulls nre of ilirt'crcnt conn- BB trios' but mostly we'd say Seagulls BB wore of the COMt! Mid Ol the wnler BB nnd the air and the waves mnl the H H "Hut this story gOM thnt the people BB whore my dear great. grant grand BB mother lived used to believe If thoy BB saw any of the Seagull family Hying BB over the land, or alighting on the Innd BB they would beg them to go away, for BB thoy believed that when the Songu'ls BB were on the land the weather would BB bo BB "They said thnt when the Seagulls BB were on the coast, living or pasting BB over or on the beach then the vv outlier BB would bo good, ami as they liked line H v outlier they liked to see the Seagulls BB li.V the water. BJ "Thlf was (lie story which came MS over, mid which I am telling you long BJB years after It was tlrst told. BH "There is a good deal of truth In It, BB too. but not so much, for some of uiv BB family moved to a coast where (hero BB U"ie storms, nil. all tile time, am! Bfl they all loved It nnd wouldn't move Bfl away for anv thing Still It's a nice BB old story with a scrap of truth attach- Bfl id, a scrap." oiidod Mrs. Seagull, as BB the) all Hew up in the air and then H I'onstisi happily along. |