Show FEATHERED barometers or allon sailors vetoed A arsea by them of a con cons law K storm torna while a british brig waa wait gliding gilding smoothly ly along before a good breeze io in the sooth south pacific a flock of email small birda birds about the alze and color of par settled down in the rigging and pasted an hour or more of tile second mate waa was so anxious to find out the species to which the visiting gere vers belonged that be tried to entrap a specimen but the birds were too shy to be thus caught and too spry to be seize by the quick hauda hands of the sailors at the end of about an boar hour the birds took the brig 0 coarse and disappeared but toward nightfall they came back and pasted the night lo 10 the the next morning the bird birds flew off again and when they returned reto at boon noon the sailors scattered gome some food about the decka decks by tl ti la is time the birds bad had become so 80 tame that they hopped about the decka picking dp up the crunity that afternoon aa an astonishing thing happen sd jad the flock oame came flying swiftly to n m ahl the brig civery bird teen seen ed to be piping as it 1 pursue I 1 by bomb little in visible enemy on oil wings abd and they at once huddled down behind tho deck house the superstitious sailors at once called the captain of tho the brig who rub bod bed his eyes and looked at the barome ter A glance showed that something was wrong w with ith the elements and the brig waa wag put in shape to outride a storm the storm came about 20 minutes after the birds bad had reached the teasel vessel for a few minutes the eky sky was like the waterless bottom of a lake a vast arch of yellowish mod mua and tind torrents of raia rain ell fell why it did not blow very hard no one knows but on reaching port two days later the captain learned that a great tornado had swept across that part of the sea the birds left the on the morning after the storm and were not seen again maryland bulletin |