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Show STARE OF PELICANS IS VEXATIOUS TO BATHER SANTA MONICA. Cal.. Aug. 7 The stare of a large group of pelicans which gather every morning on the bench to watch H L. Wright of Denver. Den-ver. Colo., go through his dally calls-thenlt calls-thenlt exercises has caused tho Denver Den-ver visitor to apply to the police for permission to carry firearms as a means of teaching the sea birds politeness. po-liteness. He declared that no matter what section of tho beach he chooses for his exercises the gulls and pelicans congregate In a semi-circle and stare him out of countenance, "I go flown early In the morning BO that I can exercise before bathers begin be-gin to come 1 he told tho police, "but as soon as I begin my calisthenics all the aea gulls of the Pacific, it seems to me, float down, settle on the sand and watch me from a safe distance. "Some of them screech at me and one old pelican gazes at me In fls-clnated fls-clnated silence. I came here to get well, but that pelican Is making a nervous wreck of me." |