At Breakfast, Dixxer, Tea, Sipper. i 



AX EDIBLE SNAIL. 



Long terms of privation 

 spoil some birds' morals. The 

 hard winter of 1895 drove 

 Rooks to the sad extremity 

 of killino' and devourino- Star- 

 lings, and I am sorry to say 

 that I have since watched them 

 trying to repeat such mur- 

 derous tactics when the excuse of starvation could 

 not be urged with so much force. The exception- 

 ally severe weather of the 

 Avinter I have just mentioned 

 did Londoners and Seagulls a 

 great service. It made them 

 shake hands with each other, 

 so to speak, and they have 

 been on the very best of terms 

 ever since. The birds, con- 

 sisting mostly of black-headed 

 Gulls, in winter dress, Avere driven by hunger up 

 the River Thames in search of food, and directlv 

 they arrived at Black friars 

 Bridge they met with such an 

 outburst of hospitality as fairly 

 astonished them. Thousands of 

 people turned out on the Em- 

 bankment and the brido-e to 

 see and feed them with sprats, 

 bits of bread, and other ac- 

 ceptable morsels daily. 1 was 

 c 



;XAIL, -WITH BUOKEX 

 SHELL REPAIRED. 



ELL AFTER SNAIL HAS 

 BEEN EATEV. 



