BIRD STORIES 



fresh food; and many a clam hunt they had in true gull 

 style. They would fly above the water near the shore, 

 and w^hen they w^ere twenty or thirty feet high, would 

 plunge down head-first. Then they would poke around 



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After Larie found a clam, he would fly high into the air a hundred feet 

 or so, and then drop it. 



for a clam, with their heads and necks under water and 

 their wings out and partly unfolded, but not flopping; 

 and a comical sight they were! 

 ^ After Larie found a clam, he would fly high into the air 

 a hundred feet or so above the rocks, and then, stretch- 

 ing way up with his head, drop the clam from his beak. 



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