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WILD WINGS 
“a sooty shearwater or two joined the party” 
vessel, and perhaps a dozen Greater Shearwaters and a Sooty 
Shearwater or two joined the party. The fishermen call the 
latter class “ Haglets,”—White and Black, resj^ectively,— 
while the jaeg-ers are “ Jiddies.” 
The haglets did not seem as tame as years ago, when 
I used almost to feed them out of mv hands. Perhaps the 
trouble was we did not have enough livers to throw out much 
at a time and get them so excited that they would bait up 
well. However, they came fairly near, — within ten feet, — 
and I took a lot of pictures of them, in all sorts of positions 
and combinations. AWien all the plates in the holders had 
been exposed, I darkened the cuddy and managed to change 
plates without disaster and get to work again. 
At length it was time to go back, especially as the wind 
had become light and was dying out. For a time it was fiat 
