The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
the birds catch enormous numbers of 
small fish and bring them home five or 
six at a time, with their tails hanging 
out. They look as if they were smoking 
a lot of cigarettes all at once, and when 
they pop up to the surface of the sea, 
with this row of silvery fish in their blue 
and yellow and red beaks, with their 
little black eyes, and tubby little black- 
and-white bodies, they really do look very 
funny. Rising to the top of a wave, 
they fly off with their catch, which is to 
feed their solitary young one. They lay 
their eggs in an underground burrow 
like a rabbit-hole. 
As there are numbers of rabbits living 
in the same places, it is very likely that 
they use the holes the rabbits have made 
for themselves in the loose soil on the 
top of their island home. But whether 
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