The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
generally succeeds in catching it. Then 
it either eats it by swallowing it whole, 
or if it has young in the nest at home it 
flies off with the fish hanging from its 
beak. 
I once saw an arctic tern catch a small 
fish, and instead of eating it—it was too 
early in the year for it to have any young 
ones—it flew to the shore where its wife 
was standing and put the fish into her 
beak in the most polite manner. They 
were evidently a newly married couple, 
and the bride wanted a great deal of wait- 
ing on, and gave herself a good many 
airs. Instead of going fishing for her- 
self, she simply sat on the sand and 
screamed to her husband to go and catch 
something, for she felt so hungry. Like 
an obedient husband he went and did as 
he was told, but I thought that in a 
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