472 THE GANNET 



The Breast-bone and Gullet. — Long ago, when lamps were 

 hard to come by, Gannets' breast-bones served the St, 

 Kildans for that purpose, for which their shape was not ill- 

 adapted, while the stomach and gullet, which are of great 

 size, distended and dried, still make excellent skin-bottles 

 for holding their much prized Fulmar oil. Even that does 

 not quite exhaust the ideas which have suggested them- 

 selves, for pipe-stems have been made by ingenious men 

 out of the ulna-bones of Gannets' wings, and were to be 

 bought for three a penny. Their webbed feet, pliant enough 

 when the bird is alive, but which soon become hard, have 

 been converted into receptacles meant for purses or 

 tobacco-pouches. Someone even tried to make slippers 

 out of their skins, and tippets out of the young ones' 

 down, but not very successfully. 



