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dark, spruce-covered island, spectacle-shaped, the 
two lobes connected by a narrow bar. Dotted all 
over the spruces were snowy Herring Gulls perched 
upon their tops; many others were already a-wing, 
flying out to sea to feed, squealing and cackling 
incessantly. [he sky was clear, and the east already 
rosy red, changing its hues moment by moment, 
as the sun approached the horizon. All at once 
the glowing orb seemed to fairly bound from the 
deep, and instantly the whole scene was wonder- 
ously transformed. The ocean, recently so dark, 
now glittered and sparkled as with myriad dia- 
monds; the spruces reddened under their baptism 
Oniaahie etc 
Gullice were 
gleams of living 
radiance. Erom 
the spruces ex- 
tended a long 
line of them in 
flight, going a 
Muley Or mote 
out) to “same 
shoal water, 
where a large 
flock were rid- 
ing at anchor, = im : 
and others were WESTERN GULLS. BY OTTO VON BARGEN 
hovering over schools of fish. ‘‘ Devil’s Limb,’’ the 
grim rock of Cormorant-resort to the westward, 
looked less forbidding in the glad sunshine that 
warmed up its wet, ragged sides into the semblance 
of a smile. 
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