THE GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL. 



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ly lix'eried messengers to prophesy of a world be}-oiul. White for puritv, pale 

 blue for tremulous hope and reminiscence of hea\en ( when skies are dull ) ; 

 these, with a little black for tagging — recognition marks — compose the daintv 

 costume of a full grown gull. The murky flood belnw gnaws sulkily at the 

 luiderpinning of the wharfage, or recoils in turbid fright from dark secrets of 

 \-egetable outlawry : but the sea-birds, ho\-ering o\'er, spotless, graceful, 

 debonair, make us frirget our partnership of guilty knowledge, and pledge us 

 to visions (if the limpid ocean, all power- 

 ful and all purifying. 



To anfl fro, forward and back, in and 

 out, up. down, and around, 

 mo\-es the restless multitude 



From a Plxotogra^h, Copyright . 1908, by 

 iV. L. Dazi-son. 



FACI.VG THE TIDE. 



CVI,L5 IN E.^ST WATERWAY, SEATTLE. 



when the hungry mood is on. — a twirling kaleidoscope of action. And. while 

 the gulls are no songsters, not the least of their charms lies in the manifold 

 cries, trumpet calls, croaks, barks, and screams, with which the birds mark the 

 progress of their quest. And when a treasure of floating biscuits is discovered, 

 how the screams rise to a grand medley of stridor, fierce, exultant, like the 

 triumph of Tritons over smitten reefs! 



