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which was not on a cliff at all ! 

 but on a wide moorland, not far 

 from Fleetwood, in Lancashire. 

 There were Gulls there, any amount 

 of them, and of several sorts. 



But, to confess the truth, I think, 

 somehow, that the beautiful birds 

 look more beautiful in such a wild 

 and romantic scene as the great sea 

 walls of our British shores. And 

 the Lancashire moss notwithstand- 

 ing, Gulls must always be in my 

 mind true and dear " cliff-people." 



